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UK: The Undercover Policing Scrutiny Panel – a whitewash operation exposed…

04 June 2015

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"Sophie Khan announced to stand down from the Undercover Policing Scrutiny Panel. Via a tweet and a blogpost at the Telegraph site earlier this week; it almost passed unnoticed. Until recently, the existence of this Panel was unknown, even to the Undercover Research Group. But that has changed now....The National Undercover Scrutiny Panel (or Undercover Policing Oversight Board) is a working group established in 2014 by the College of Policing as ‘part of a set of changes to providing greater transparency and review of undercover policing’."

See the full text: The Undercover Policing Scrutiny Panel – a whitewash operation exposed…(Undercover Research Group, link)

And: Sophie Khan resigns from College of Policing panel (viewing article requires free account) (Police Oracle, link): "A lawyer who volunteered for a College of Policing panel has resigned after claiming it wasn't fulfilling its purpose...Sophie Khan... was the highest profile member of a group to check on the standards of training and public confidence in the use of undercover tactics. (...) "Ms Khan... told PoliceOracle.com today (June 2) that nothing had been achieved beyond agreeing a term of reference."She said: 'It has done nothing. I couldn't continue when I have been a member for a year and nothing has happened.'"

Also: The Panel was a good idea but…..I have today stood down from the Undercover Policing Scrutiny Panel.

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