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Sex, Lies and Police spies: The Met’s undercover police scandal 

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The Politics of Secrecy

Daniel Weeks of Chillifia was one of 27 women involved in the undercover policing inquiry. She took her case to an investigatory powers tribunal and has already received some answers. But she wonders if these tactics were justified, do you think? Are there any circumstances in which the Metropolitan Police could use officers in this way? Long term secret political policing operations are unlawful under the Human Rights Act.

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