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UK: Undercover policing inquiry: The Met’s Chaotic and Dysfunctional Record Keeping

20 August 2016

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"Storage facilities with most documents missing or misfiled, systems repeatedly described as ‘chaotic’ by the police themselves – internal documents reveal that the Met is having big problems sorting out its records management before it can even tell the Pitchford Inquiry what’s gone on.

Guest blogger Peter Salmon of the Undercover Research Group unpicks recent statements from the force."

See: The Met’s Chaotic and Dysfunctional Record Keeping (COPS, link)

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