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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.
Before creating Black Doves, Barton learned about a scandal in the United Kingdom involving what the press called “spy cops.” Under the noses of the UK’s top brass, a squad of roughly 140 ...
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 ...
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 Undercover Policing Inquiry is an independent statutory inquiry into undercover policing in England and Wales. It was announced by Theresa May , the then Home Secretary , on 6 March 2014, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and its terms of reference were published on 16 July 2015.
While undercover, he had sexual relationships with four women, fathering a child with one of them, all of whom were unaware of his true identity. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The child and the child's mother needed psychiatric treatment after discovering Lambert's identity much later, and both were awarded damages against the Police. [ 5 ]
Critical reception for Undercover has been positive. [3] Alan White in the New Statesman wrote "Undercover compels the reader throughout, which is a testament to the investigative and writing skills of Evans and Lewis" and noted "the result is an example of the kind of classic, long-haul journalism that has, over recent years, produced scoops that have rattled the establishment, provoked ...
For days, Musk – the world’s richest man and the owner of X – has used his social media platform to dredge up a years-long scandal over historic child sex abuse in parts of England.