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London police were forced to apologize this week after it was revealed that undercover agents had been fucking their way to secrets, womanizing informants for a period of over 30 years.
I’d say up top, but no up top. This was, very, very wrong.
In one particular case, an undercover agent had a five-year long relationship with a lady. Another fathered a fucking child. Via The New York Times:
The case is one of seven that prompted a formal apology from the British police on Friday for the behavior of undercover officers who used relationships — one nine years long — to gather intelligence and to infiltrate environmental, social justice or other advocacy groups.
In doing so the men had engaged in “long-term, intimate, sexual relationships with women which were abusive, deceitful, manipulative and wrong,” Martin Hewitt, assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said in a statement.
Offering an unreserved apology, Mr. Hewitt said that the women were “deceived, pure and simple,” adding that “these relationships were a violation of the women’s human rights, an abuse of police power and caused significant trauma.”
Well, if you come from the land of James Bond, and are working undercover, why wouldn’t you try to emulate him?
That doesn’t make it right, though, and police finally admitted it was wrong after years of legal action by the women.
In another case, settled last year and involving an undercover officer who had fathered a child, a compensation payment of 425,000 pounds, about $680,000, was made, according to the British news media.
It all sounded pretty damn traumatizing.
One woman described how she looked for her partner after his disappearance, only to discover a death certificate with the name he had been using. It proved to be for a child who had died of leukemia at the age of 8, suggesting that the police had used identities of the deceased.
Fuck. The officers came from the Special Demonstration Squad and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit, which have both been disbanded.
[H/T @manymanywords]
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