Well done for Shami Chakrabarti robustly condemning the cover-up of another policeman’s deception. More evidence of institutional misogyny and racism in the UK police. #SpyCops #SexCops https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/07/labour-peer-shami-chakrabarti-condemns-cover-up-of-undercover-police-officers-deception

Well done for Shami Chakrabarti robustly condemning the cover-up of another policeman’s deception. More evidence of institutional misogyny and racism in the UK police. #SpyCops #SexCops https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/07/labour-peer-shami-chakrabarti-condemns-cover-up-of-undercover-police-officers-deception

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/07/spy-cops-victim-relationship-undercover-police-officer
"Our campaign and support organisation, Police Spies Out of Lives, aims to ensure this type of state-sponsored abuse never happens again. The story reported this week is deeply disturbing, with the victim, Mary, being deceived for nearly two decades by an undercover police officer – proving that our work is far from done".

#SpyCops = rapists

‘While it’s easier to understand individuals as victims, and certainly easier to generate traffic from their stories, one of the primary targets of the spy cops were the trade unions – from the Fire Brigades Union to the National Union of Teachers and the Communication Workers Union – of which deceived women were members. Curiously, much evidence of police infiltration of unions has been excluded from the inquiry.’ #SpyCops #NovaraMedia https://novaramedia.com/2023/07/03/stop-sexing-up-the-spy-cops-scandal-say-victims/

Polizeispitzel in Barcelona und Valencia enttarnt

"Insgesamt drei verdeckte Ermittler in Spanien waren offenbar auf Personen und Gruppen angesetzt, die sich mit Polizeigewalt, Antikapitalismus und Gentrifizierung beschäftigen. Frauen zeigen enttarnten Beamten wegen Missbrauchs an.
(...)
Die katalanische Zweiwochenzeitung „La Directa“ hat Ende Januar 2023 einen verdeckten Ermittler enttarnt, der im Auftrag der spanischen Nationalpolizei über drei Jahre soziale Bewegungen in #Barcelona infiltriert hat. Der damals 31-jährige Polizist begann seinen Einsatz demnach 2020, gab sich als Mallorquiner aus und nutzte den Alias „Daniel Hernàndez Pons“. Den Recherchen zufolge setzt sich auch sein Klarname aus den Initialen D.H.P. zusammen."
Text von @matthimon https://www.antifainfoblatt.de/artikel/polizeispitzel-barcelona-und-valencia-enttarnt

#Polizei #Polizeiproblem #spycops #antireport #Spain

The story spycops tried to hide: part I
The closing hearing in the first “tranche” of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) took place earlier this year. This summary from the Undercover Research Group offers an overview of what has been learned.

The Inquiry was first ordered in 2014 following multiple scandals around two undercover units – the Sp
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/07/30/the-story-spycops-tried-to-hide-part-i/
#spycops #UndercoverPolicingInquiry #UndercoverResearchGroup

@PatriciaLewis Good for Ernest Moret.

I see, however, that the powers that be are still pretending that infamous scandals such as the #SpyCops etc can be erased from public memory:

'Hall said: “Now that left[wing] and single-issue terrorism is part of the core work of counter-terrorism police and MI5, a relatively new area of work where understanding of thresholds may not yet be well developed, there is a risk of recurrence unless modest but additional safeguards are built into the code of practice. I recommend that the code is amended to specify that schedule 7 should not be used for the purpose of public order policing.”'

ERNEUT: Polizistin infiltriert drei Jahre lang Volksbewegungen in Girona (CATALONIA)

"Maria I. T., eine Agentin der spanischen Nationalpolizei, ist die vierte Spionin, die im Jahr 2019 entdeckt wird. Ihre Spionagetätigkeit konzentrierte sich auf die Bereiche Unabhängigkeit, Antirassismus und die Wohnungsbewegung. Während des gesamten Zeitraums ihrer Infiltration unterhielt sie eine stabile Liebesbeziehung zu einem derjenigen, die beschuldigt wurden, am ersten Jahrestag des 1. Oktobers die AVE-Schienen durchtrennt zu haben."

https://www.anarchistischefoderation.de/erneut-polizistin-infiltriert-drei-jahre-lang-volksbewegungen-in-girona-catalonia/

#spycops #police #Überwachung #staat #Herrschaft

The #SpyCops programmes of infiltrating leftwing and progressive groups in the 70’s/80’s were ‘were not justified and should have been closed down’ a retired judge leading public inquiry has concluded.

What reassures do we have that these kind operations are not happening and can’t happen ever again?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/spy-cops-operations-against-leftwing-groups-unjustified-judge-finds

@fkamiah17 coming up next: #spycops

Secret police spy units ‘real subversion of democracy’, say campaigners

Women speaking out ahead of the publication of the first part of a long-running public inquiry into undercover policing.

#SpyCops

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/theresa-may-metropolitan-police-mark-kennedy-royal-courts-of-justice-kate-wilson-b2366180.html

One of my friends speaks out about our experiences with #SpyCops.

Eleanor Fairbraida, Earth First activist in the 2000s in Nottingham, has come out as one of the deceived partners of spy-cop Mark Kennedy.

"Her decision to speak out ... coincides with the revelation that Kennedy, a former officer in the secretive National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), is being investigated over allegations of criminal misconduct."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c872c5ea-0c63-11ee-bf81-8b99fdf73556?shareToken=76b13f0327c931226512f4425c3d20f0

#SpyCops #police #Nottingham #EarthFirst #MarkKennedy #MarkStone

When you are in the cross hairs – #Spycops

As the Undercover Policing Enquiry completed its first tranche of hearings, it is becoming clearer how the Establishment went after those defending democracy

https://www.counterfire.org/article/when-you-are-in-the-cross-hairs-spycops/

Metropolitan Police Update:
They're still shit, and in ways you didn't know about before.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/06/met-police-operation-secretly-monitors-children-online
They're still shit at the usual stuff too, though:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/06/police-motorcyclist-london-collision-helen-holland
#UKPolitics #MetPolice #SpyCops

https://www.statewatch.org/news/2023/february/second-undercover-police-officer-spying-on-barcelona-activists-unmasked/ "Second undercover police officer spying on Barcelona activists unmasked" 2023-02-03

Looks like the Spanish police ran a similar operation to the UK ones to infiltrate left wing activist movements 2020-2023 including relationships with people who had no idea they were cops.

urgh :(

#ESPol #Spycops

RT @matthimon
"I feel I was raped. If I had known he was a cop, I would have never had a relationship with him. I wasn’t able to make that decision".
Six women in #Barcelona seek justice after relationship with #Spycops:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/25/women-barcelona-relationship-with-spy-cop-spain https://twitter.com/matthimon/status/1620829354505965570

RT @tombfowler@twitter.com

RIP Blair Peach murdered on this day 44 years ago 23 April 1979.
Beaten to death by Special Patrol Group using homemade weapons at a protest against a National Front meeting at Southall town hall. The justice campaign, led by his partner Celia Stubbs was targeted by #spycops...🧵

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/tombfowler/status/1650074709327790085

In February we published a statement from La Cinetika regarding the a report of undercover policing.

Here is their latest statement : Unmasking Infiltration.

https://organisemagazine.org.uk/unmasking-infiltration/

#spycops #1312 #Barcelona #catalonia

@micahflee I don't need to tell you about the whole UK #spycops undercover thing, I'm sure - beards, long hair, relationships, at least one child - deep undercover for years. Public enquiry going on, but believed to be still some out there today...