13k bids to access people’s mobiles and emails

THE PSNI applied for permission to intercept people’s telephone calls, emails or letters and acquire their telephone billing or subscriber details on 13,848 occasions between April 2009 and May 2012, the Sentinel can reveal.

Back in May the Sentinel revealed the PSNI spent £1m accessing people’s mobile phone data over the past five years.

The money was paid out to mobile phone companies for access to data under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA).