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Activists and politicians spied on by police speak out on inquiry demands
Protesters blockade New Scotland Yard in 2011 with pictures of police men who posed as their friends and partners
ACTIVISTS and politicians who were spied on by police officers spoke out about their demands today ahead of the Undercover Policing Inquiry.
Having already cost £30 million, the inquiry about undercover policing in England and Wales between 1968 and 2008 formally began in 2015 and was originally scheduled to end in 2018.
On Monday, the first phase of the hearings will consider the operations of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) between 1968 and 1972, ahead of a second phase starting in January.
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