In this clip from the most recent Decline & Fall show we look at the Spy Cops enquiry.
This is a long running public enquiry into the activities of a secretive group within the Metropolitan Police which sent undercover cops into left wing activist groups. This has been going on since the late 1960’s and involved undercover cops going as far as marrying female activists, having children with them and then (one day) vanishing as their undercover work came to a close.
We look at what the enquiry has revealed and how the most scandalous things that the undercover cops did has become fully legal standard practice thanks to the repressive legislation passed by Tory and Labour administrations.
