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[-] ladfrombrad@lemdro.id 9 points 11 months ago

Mary’s family, who live in an area in which relations with police have been fraught for many years, are concerned that members of their community may learn about the relationship and wrongly conclude that she knowingly collaborated with police.

Also known as a "pig fucker".

You get labelled with that round 'ere and things are never the same again. Horrible stigma.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Now now, that's not fair. You might get to be PM.

[-] Lifebandit666@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

There's a guy I work with whose wife is a Copper, so I've named him Kermit.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


In 2020, after the couple were engaged to be married, the woman discovered that her fiance, whom she believed to be a businessman, was in fact a police officer who had subjected her to a sophisticated deception lasting almost two decades.

Undercover police, who often turn up out of the blue with next to no connections in an area, have in the past been known to form relationships with innocent people to build credibility into their cover story, or “legend”.

Relatives recall the undercover officer, who was also black, as a “charismatic but quiet” man who appeared to be interested in cars and spent his spare time weight training and doing martial arts.

Mary’s experience bears some similarities with cases in the so-called “spycops” scandal, in which many women were deceived into long-term relationships by undercover police officers who were spying on mostly leftwing political groups.

Unlike those cases, which are the subject of an ongoing public inquiry by Sir John Mitting, a former high court judge, Mary’s fiance was not gathering intelligence on protest groups.

Her siblings say that Avon and Somerset police have consistently put pressure on them not to speak publicly about the relationship, warning of the risk of social unrest if the news got out.


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[-] abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Mary’s fiance was not gathering intelligence on protest groups.

Her siblings say that Avon and Somerset police have consistently put pressure on them not to speak publicly about the relationship, warning of the risk of social unrest if the news got out.

Embedded into a black community and speaking publicly will cause social unrest...

I think we have a racist spy-op instead of an anti-left syp-op this time

Ahh the British police are special some times

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating senior officers at Avon and Somerset police, who knew about the undercover officer’s relationship with the woman as far back as 2013.

They appear to have waited at least seven years before informing the woman that the person she knew as her fiance had been using a fake identity given to him for use in covert police operations.

What the fuck.

What was he even investigating that he stayed undercover for two decades?

this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2023
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