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Brixton-based political groups spied on by undercover police

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In the Guardian today:

Undercover police officers have spied on more than 1,000 political groups since 1968. However, no official list of these groups has been published.

This database is an attempt to compile such a list. It is a work in progress and will be updated as more information is made public. The aim is to make more visible the nature and scope of a covert operation that has spanned more than four decades.
Brixton Hunt Saboteurs
Animal rights

Fake IDAndy Davey
Dates1991-1995
CypherHN2
Davey, whose real name is Andy Coles, left the police in 2012 and became a Conservative councillor in Peterborough. There is a campaign to remove him from the council after a woman, known as Jessica, said he groomed and manipulated her into an intimate sexual relationship while he was undercover. He has denied this. She is taking legal action against the police.
Brixton and Croydon Hunt Saboteurs
Animal rights

Fake IDJames Straven
Dates1997-2002
CypherHN16
The public inquiry is investigating why and how this officer used a second fake identity, Kevin Crossland. According to the inquiry, the use of this second name "does not appear to have been sanctioned" by his supervisors in the Special Demonstration Squad. The real Kevin Crossland died aged five in a plane crash in 1966. His relatives have described how Kevin was flying with his family from Luton aiport to go on holiday: "Kevin and his sister were very excited, they had packed their favourite toys to take with them. On the way to Luton airport, both were singing 'we are going to the summer holiday'." The plane crashed as it was coming in to land in the former Yugoslavia.
Cherry Groce campaignJustice campaign
Fake ID Unknown
Dates—
Cypher—
The Special Demonstration Squad gathered information on the relatives of Groce whose shooting by police in 1985 sparked riots.
UK political groups spied on by undercover police – the list
 

London Boots Action GroupAnimal rights
Fake IDAndy Davey
Dates1991-1995
CypherHN2
Davey was exposed in 2017 because his brother, the broadcaster and former pop star Richard Coles, had referred to his covert work in a biography. A member of the public spotted the significance of the brief remark in the book and tipped off campaigners at the Undercover Research Group, a network of activists scrutinising the deployment of police spies.
 
Cherry Grove campaign?

How was that threat to national security?

Oh it was threat to the pigs reputation.

What is worse is that some of these pigs were starting affairs with female activists in political groups.

Also the efforts of infiltration of groups was biased towards left of centre groups. Not the right.
 
Cherry Grove campaign?
How was that threat to national security?
Oh it was threat to the pigs reputation.
What is worse is that some of these pigs were starting affairs with female activists in political groups.
Also the efforts of infiltration of groups was biased towards left of centre groups. Not the right.
There are two undercover officers mentioned spying on Movement of Justice.

Why after all this did Duwayne Brooks end up joining the Tory party? Is this a delayed Stockholm Syndrome situation or what? *

Note that the officer spying on MFJ (but not spying on Duwayne Brooks) was also busy infiltrating the Wayne Douglas Campaign (which was around the death in police custody case sparking the 1995 Brixton riot).

These "operations" are not necessarily about national security - more what the police like to call "public order" - which makes it worse really. They are prepared to break the law themselves to maintain the upper hand. Another form of police corruption.

* footnote - on reflection I'm willing to believe Mr Brooks defected to the Tories over Brexit. It is my experience that African and Caribbean people sometimes feel that Brexit would mean greater ease of access to the UK of those populations (family visits/marriage etc). Having seen the latest Windrush debacle that seems optimistic to say the least!

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Police chiefs are declining to say whether they are continuing to target political activists using the same undercover techniques. In a statement the National Police Chiefs Council said it was assisting the inquiry, adding: “it would be inappropriate to comment further”
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Among those spied on were the campaigns for justice over the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician shot repeatedly in the head in 2005 by police after being mistaken for a suicide bomber, and Cherry Groce, whose shooting by police two decades earlier, in 1985, sparked the Brixton riots.


Recent article from the Guardian.

A few police undercover who were spying on Brixton groups ( not named. These are the undercover names.)

Inquiry is ongoing.



Police arent coming out of this well.
 
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