Rob Evans Investigative journalist Rob Evans discusses the secret group of police spies and the uncovering of forty years of state espionage monitoring British protest groups. This was an undercover operation so secret that some of our most senior police officers had no idea it existed. The job of the clandestine unit was to monitor […]
Andy Coles then and now What: Demonstration outside Peterborough City Council meeting calling for former abusive spycop Councillor Andy Coles to resign. Where: Town Hall, St Peter’s Road, Peterborough PE1 1YX (rear entrance; the main Bridge Street entrance is not usually used) When: 6pm, Wednesday 17 October 2018 Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into […]
Come and support 'Monica' in her legal challenge to try to get spycops prosecuted. In 2013, the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to prosecute undercover police officers who deceived women into relationships. As we said at the time, other men have been jailed for comparable and lesser sexual deceit, and if the spycops men were […]
Andy Coles then and now What: Demonstration outside Peterborough City Council meeting calling for former abusive spycop Councillor Andy Coles to resign. Where: Town Hall, St Peter’s Road, Peterborough PE1 1YX (rear entrance; the main Bridge Street entrance is not usually used) When: 6pm, Wednesday 12 December 2018 Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into […]
Andy Coles then and now UPDATE 14 DECEMBER: The AGM - and. thererfore, Andy Coles' talk about policing - have now been postponed to an unspecified future date. ************ When the truth was exposed about Andy Coles' history as an undercover police officer, he immediately resigned as Cambridgeshire's Deputy Police & Crime Commissioner. He spent […]
Andy Coles then and now What: Demonstration outside Peterborough City Council meeting calling for former abusive spycop Councillor Andy Coles to resign. Where: Town Hall, St Peter’s Road, Peterborough PE1 1YX (rear entrance; the main Bridge Street entrance is not usually used) When: 6pm, Wednesday 23 January 2019 Why: Andy Coles deceived a teenager into […]
On Thursday 31st January the Undercover Policing Inquiry holds its next preliminary hearing. It is trying to weigh up the right to privacy of those invovled in the scandal; can people who were spied on be publicly named? Do new data protection laws mean victims have a right to see information that's held about them? […]
The public inquiry into Britain's political secret police inches forward. There wil be a preliminary hearing 10.30am on 31 January 2019 in Court 76 of the Royal Courts of Justice in London. The inquiry will be seeking views on how to comply with privacy laws, while conducting hearings in as transparent a way as possible. […]
In 1968, the British Metropolitan Police created the 'Special Demonstration Squad', an undercover group to infiltrate protest groups. 50 years later and over 1,000 groups including community action groups and justice campaigns have been spied on by over 250 officers. On many occasions, officers entered into relationships with female campaigners who knew nothing of their […]
Join us in Cambridge for a talk on state surveillance, monitoring, and infiltration, and repression of activist movements. The panel includes: Aziz Choudry (editor of Activists & The Surveillance State), Eveline Lubbers of the Undercover Research Group, and 'Jessica', an activist who was deceived into a relationship by an undercover police officer. The use of […]