To get one the normal process is: 1) Seize a phone 2) Informally ask for the PIN 3) Be refused 4) Go through a 3 stage internal approval process 5) Apply to a High Court Judge for a s.49 RIPA notice 6) Serve the notice 7) Evidence that they've not complied with it 7) Submit a casefile to the CPS

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It normally take months and months, and isn't hugely common because of the hoops police need to jump through and the high level of authority needed. It's absolutely something that has to have been being worked on long before the dinghy incident.

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I quite happly stand corrected.

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Pretty sure this is how Eleanor of Aquitaine got her job too. 👑

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A watched cat *never* births. I swear she’s planning to stay pregnant forever.

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