Report of the Interception of Communications Commissioner - March 2015
Figure 6 2014 RIPA 2000 Part I Chapter II Authorisations & Notices by Data Type
traffic data
33%
subscriber
information
49%
combination
16%
service use
information
2%
agencies. Less than 2% were made by local authorities and ‘other’ public authorities.
‘Other’ public authorities include regulatory bodies with statutory functions to investigate
criminal offences and smaller bodies with niche functions. Of particular note is that no
Fire & Rescue Authorities or Ambulance Trusts reported using their powers in 2014. Just
over a fifth of Local Authorities reported using their powers in 2014.
7.28 Finally, this year my office repeated an exercise conducted for my 2013 Annual
Report to provide some further statistical information in relation to the statutory necessity
purposes under which data is required in order to better inform the public about how
Figure 7 Chapter II of Part I RIPA 2000 Authorisations & Notices by Public Authority Type
(2014)
local
authorities 0.4%
police forces &
law enforcement agencies
88.9%
intelligence agencies
9.8%
other public
authorities 0.9%
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