WHO ARE WE?

Police Spies Out of Lives (PSOOL) is a campaigning support group working to end sexual and psychological abuse perpetrated by undercover police officers. We are women deceived into intimate, sexual relationships with undercover police officers, many of whom were infiltrating environmental and social justice campaign groups. We support the legal actions, and participation in the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing, by women who have been victims of abusive undercover policing. We work to expose the unethical, immoral and misogynistic practices of undercover policing, and the institutional prejudices which have led to the abuse.

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OUR CALL TO ACTION

The new ITV documentary ‘The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed’ first screened on Thursday March 6th at 9pm on ITV and ITVX reveals institutionalised sexism and misogyny in the Metropolitan police and highlights the psychological impact on women campaigners who were deceived into intimate, sexual relationships with on-duty undercover police officers. 

This state-funded abuse must never be allowed to happen to other women again. The 2021 Covert Human Intelligence Sources [CHIS] Criminal Conduct Act places no limits on what undercover operatives can be authorised to do. This situation needs to change. It must be made illegal for undercover officers to have sex with members of the public using their fake identity.

The ongoing Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing has been extended for years without any of the additional time being dedicated to the needs of the survivors of these abusive deployments, causing additional distress.

Several of the officers guilty of deceiving women into relationships and violating their human rights have received police commendations and even public honours.

We call on government to:

  1. Change the law explicitly to outlaw these abusive relationships;
  2. Require the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing to allow sufficient time for victims to view disclosure and provide evidence;
  3. Remove commendations and honours from officers known to have abused women.

EXPLAINING THE ISSUE

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Despite this unprecedented apology given to the first eight women who brought a case against the police for these abusive deployments, the police continue to be obstructive and secretive in response to many new cases which have since emerged. Combined with recent appalling and disturbing events showing sexual violence, systemic misogyny and sexism within the Metropolitan Police Service and other constabularies, this apology now rings hollow.

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