Next week sees a rare public hearing of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), which was launched in 2015 following the ‘spycops’ scandal to investigate undercover police operations over five decades.
Starting on 20 February, the inquiry will sit virtually for three days to hear closing statements for ‘Tranche 1’, which covers the period from 1968 to 1982. These will summarise the evidence heard on undercover policing during this time and how governments worked to cover it up.
By now, most people will have read something about the women deceived into relationships by undercover officers or police spying on the family of Stephen Lawrence or other Black justice campaigners.
