Helen Steel confronted former partner John Dines in Australia Statement read out in NSW parliament re Dines’ police training role Fear that former officers are teaching human rights abuses to new police recruits worldwide The campaigner Helen Steel (interviewed here…
Judgment entered against police in undercover relationships case
On Friday 15th January 2016, the Metropolitan Police withdrew their defence in a case brought against them over undercover police relationships. In a significant development at the High Court, the police asked for judgment to be entered against them in…
Met police finally concede undercover relationships were an abuse of power and violated women’s human rights
Statement by the eight women: In the apology issued today by Assistant Commissioner Martin Hewitt, the Metropolitan Police finally conceded that “officers, acting undercover whilst seeking to infiltrate protest groups, entered into long-term intimate sexual relationships with women which were…
Statement from the women re HMIC Report into Undercover Policing: “We are not reassured”
We believe this report is the latest in a long line of official attempts to whitewash the human rights abuses of undercover police officers deceiving women into intimate sexual relationships. The report is full of contradictions on this issue. Despite…
PRESS RELEASE: Response to CPS decision re undercover relationships – “it makes no sense that there can be no prosecution”
Birnberg Peirce and Partners: Press Release on behalf of women victims of police misconduct, concerning CPS decision not to charge any officers from MPS Special Demonstration Squad 21 August 2014 Eight women who were deceived into entering long term intimate…