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UK: UNDERCOVER POLICING: Police to request secrecy for parts of undercover officers inquiry

22 February 2016

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"Police are to apply for sweeping legal orders to have large parts of a judge-led public inquiry into the controversial conduct of undercover officers held in private.

The Metropolitan police are arguing that significant portions of the inquiry must sit in secret in order to protect the undercover officers who have infiltrated hundreds of political groups since 1968."

See the full article: Police to request secrecy for parts of undercover officers inquiry (The Guardian, link)

And see: Metropolitan Police: Submissions on restriction orders (pdf): "These are the submissions of the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on the applicable legal principles for the making of restriction orders under section 19 of the Inquiries Act 2005"

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