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A demonstrator outside the Royal Courts of Justice, London, in October 2018
POLICE went against orders and shredded documents that may have been relevant to a public inquiry into undercover policing, a watchdog revealed today.
Members of the Metropolitan Police’s national domestic extremism & disorder intelligence unit destroyed the material in 2014 after the Undercover Policing Inquiry was set up, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said.
A former officer, had they still been serving, would have had a case to answer for gross misconduct over failing to take action after they had been told that the documents may have been shredded.
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