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Around the end of 2010 and during 2011, it was disclosed in UK media that a number of undercover police officers had, as part of their 'false persona', entered into intimate relationships with members of targeted groups and in some cases proposed marriage or fathered children with protesters who were unaware their partner was a police officer in a role as part of their official duties.
Mark Kennedy (born 7 July 1969), [1] undercover name Mark Stone, is a former London Metropolitan Police officer who, whilst attached to the police service's National Public Order Intelligence Unit, [2] (NPOIU) infiltrated many protest groups between 2003 and 2010 before he was unmasked by political activists as an undercover policeman [3] on 21 October 2010 [4] and his identity was confirmed ...
The Inquiry has been chaired by Sir John Mitting since July 2017. Theresa May commissioned the Undercover Policing Inquiry in 2015, in response to a string of allegations about the activities of undercover units, including the disclosure that police had spied on campaigners fighting for justice for Stephen Lawrence.
On 23 October 2014, the Metropolitan Police Service agreed to pay £425,000 to a woman called Jacqui whose child was fathered by Lambert; she did not know at the time of their relationship that he was an undercover police officer. The payment was part of an agreement for her to drop her legal action alleging assault, negligence, deceit and ...
The “spy cops” were a top-secret subsection of London’s Metropolitan police force. The objective of the spy cop division was to join political advocacy organizations — nominally ...
24 June The Police's Dirty Secret, about squalid sexual relationships between undercover police and females in protest movements, the UK undercover policing relationships scandal; Peter Francis was in the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) of Special Branch, where he was known as Pete Black; in 1993 he joined Youth against Racism in Europe ...
Under the national programme to replace 20,000 police officer jobs cut during austerity measures from 2010, the Home Office has allocated funding for the Met to employ 35,415 full-time equivalent ...
At the same time, a fresh wave of scandals is brewing as more police officers face court cases and misconduct hearings over allegations of sexual offences, domestic abuse and corruption.