It is estimated that in the ten year period between 1974 and 1984 5,000 private individuals were identified by name in intelligence reports, created by undercover police officers, about political campaign meetings and other events (Inquiry Transcript, 31.1.2019: p. 55-57). These, and reports compiled during other periods of covert police surveillance, are now in the possession of the inquiry into undercover policing. In more than a third of the cases, the reports recorded