2013 Annual Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner
Figure 7 2013 Total Notices & Authorisations under RIPA 2000 Part I Chapter II by Statutory
Purpose
prevent or detect crime
or prevent disorder
76.9%
emergency - prevent
death or injury
11.3%
national
security
11.4%
other
0.4%
economic wellbeing
of the UK
combination
0.06%
0.11%
0.02% - tax, duty, levy...
0.01% - public safety
<0.01% - public health
to identify person who has died or is
unable to identify themselves / to
Identify next of kin or other person
<0.01% - Miscarriage of
Justice
0.2%
Caveat: This chart is created to give indicative proportions of which statutory purpose the Notices given
and Authorisations granted in 2013 were for. The statistical difficulties are explained in the text. The main
point is that the contribution from a significant number of Police Forces has to be by extrapolations from a
smaller sample of forces that are able to give an accurate breakdown.
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