The latest round of #spycopspublicinquiry into infiltration of political groups by undercover #spycops officers finished on Friday. Some things that we learnt 1/
A series of managers who supervised the #spycops operations were called before the #spycopspublicinquiry in the hearings. Many gave curt and vague answers or claimed that they could not recall events. Those who run the secret state don't like explaining what they were doing. 2/
All of #spycops managers maintained they did not know that the undercover officers they were supervising had formed sexual relationships with women during their covert deployments. #spycopsinquiry has heard these relationships were “endemic and common” 3/ theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
At least 24 undercover #spycops officers infiltrated the small Socialist Workers Party as part of a surveillance operation criticised as being “Orwellian” and unjustified in its scale. The surveillance was almost continuous between 1970 and 2007 4/ theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
Police chiefs took a high-level policy decision not to place undercover #spycops officers in far-right groups at a time when fascists were attacking ethnic minority communities. Spycops officers were exclusively targeted at leftwing groups 5/ theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
MI5 asked police chiefs running undercover #spycops officers to collect information about political activities of children as young as 14. The officers regularly compiled files recording the political beliefs of children, along with photographs 6/ theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
Prosecutors decided that it was not in the public interest to prosecute an undercover #spycops officer who stole the identity of a dead baby, despite concluding last year that there was enough evidence to bring him to court 7/ theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
Women who were deceived into intimate relationships by undercover #spycops officers said it is “beyond belief” they will have to wait a further two years for the public inquiry into the undercover policing scandal to hold any further public hearings. 8/ theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/m…
Detailed accounts of each day of the latest round of #spycopspublicinquiry were compiled by Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance @copscampaign campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com
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