The Undercover Policing Inquiryhas delivered it's interim report, covering "Tranche 1" looking at the Special Demonstration Squad between 1968-1982. Your usual hosts Chris Brian and Tom Fowler are joined by "Jessica" twitter.com/Jessica_me2 and Kate Wilson twitter.com/fruitbatmania(& Ben) to discuss what in and been missed in the report and what we all make of it. You can read a summary of the report here: https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/summary-of-ucpi-interim-report-june-2023/ And see the press conference at the launch of the report https://www.youtube.com/live/s8BkdBkjAOA ..read more

The Undercover Policing Inquiry is currently on Tranche 1, Phase 3, looking at Special Demonstration Squad managers 1968-1982. Like all phases of the inquiry, it begins with opening statements. This episode is the audio version of the daily reports from the opening statements. You can read them here: Day 1: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2022/05/09/ucpi-daily-report-9-may-2022/ Day 2: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2022/05/10/ucpi-daily-report-10-may-2022/ Day 3: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2022/05/11/ucpi-daily-report-11-may-2022 ..read more

The next hearing of the inquiry will be taking place from Monday 9th May. In this show we preview what we might find out from the line up of mostly ex-managers from the Special Demonstration Squad 1968-82 giving evidence in these hearings. Also taking a look at the many lies of someone who won't be able to give evidence, founder of the SDS, and author of his own fictional obituary, Conrad Dixon. https://www.ucpi.org.uk/publications/the-times-published-obituary-of-conrad-dixon/ We mention the two exciting books that have recently been published: Small Town Girl by Donna Mclean https://www.hache ..read more

Despite the numerous deployments of undercover police officers in Scotland, the Public Inquiry is only concerned with events in England and Wales. Tilly Gifford, raised a judicial review at the Court of Session to challenge the decision of the Home Office not to examine the role of covert policing north of the border. She also challenged the Scottish Government’s decision not to hold a public inquiry on the same issue. Find out more: https://www.pilc.org.uk/public-inquiries/undercover-policing-inquiry-scotland/ Tilly previous appeared in episode 22 https://soundcloud.com/spycops/episode-22-inf ..read more

Jason Kirkpatrick is a climate change activist based in Berlin who was targeted by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. He is now taking legal action in Germany over the deployment of British undercover police officers at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in 2007. As mentioned in the episode, you can read reports from Statewatch at https://www.statewatch.org/news/2011/february/cross-border-spying-on-euro-anarchists-euro-police-link-updates-about-what-became-public-about-mark-kennedy-and-other-undercover-agents-in-germany-and-vice-versa-activities-of-german-undercover-police-in-uk/ and https://w ..read more

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent. This instalment is an interview by Chris Brien with activist Tilly Gifford, who along with being targeted by undercover police was approached by Strathclyde police in 2009 to become a grass against the group she was involved with Plane Stupid. She made recordings of what happened and spoke out about it in the press. https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/apr/24/strathclyde-police-plane-stupid-recruit-spy ..read more

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent. Here in part three Tom Fowler concludes his chat with Donal O'Driscoll from the Undercover Research Group by looking at the professional civilian agents: "infiltrators". Part 4 will be an interview with someone targeted by the police to become a grass and will be available in a day or so. Profile of Adrian Radford: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Adrian_Radford "Battling Big Business: Countering greenwash ..read more

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent. In part two Tom Fowler is once again joined by Donal O'Driscoll from the Undercover Research Group , this time to look at people who willingly give information on activism to the police: "informers". Part 3 "infiltrators" will be out in a day or so. Bent Coppers: The Inside Story of Scotland Yard's Battle Against Police Corruption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bent_Coppers Untouchables: Dirty Cops, Bent Jus ..read more

In this mini series we are looking beyond undercover police to examine the civilian covert human intelligence sources that are used by police to target protest groups and undermine dissent. In part one Tom Fowler is joined by Donal O'Driscoll from the Undercover Research Group to look at activists that are turned by the police to give them information "Grasses". Part 2 will be out in a day or so. No Comment: the defendants guide to arrest https://libcom.org/organise/no-comment-the-defendants-guide-to-arrest If A Tree Falls: Story of the ELF https://www.IfaTreeFallsFilm.com ..read more

From the establishment of the Special Demonstration Squad in 1968, annual reports were published to justify their continued existence. The first 15 year batch of these were some of the first documents to be released by the Undercover Policing Inquiry, you can read them for yourself https://www.ucpi.org.uk/search-results/?fwp_type=annual-report Chris Brian From the Undercover Research Group has read them all, in this episode he tells Tom Fowler the highlights and lowlights covered in the documents, from the death of Kevin Gately https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/06/15/today-in-london-ant ..read more