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Covert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government

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Local authorities must cut down on using covert-surveillance techniques to investigate petty offences, the government has said.

Ripa (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) granted public authorities the power to use surveillance to investigate crimes such as terrorism – but councils have attracted criticism for using them to detect petty offences such as dog-fouling.

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