Saturday, July 06, 2013

Police to apologise for using dead children’s identities


Senior police leaders are set to make an unprecedented national apology after hundreds of names of dead children were used to create false identities for undercover officers.

An investigation into covert policing has found widespread use of the practice. Undercover officers told The Times that they were trained to use names of the dead and it had become “standard practice” .... http://www.independent.co.uk