They absolutely believe that during the 1980s, and if not before, spies were placed to report on normal people. "The National Union of Mineworkers are a core participant in this inquiry. What's completely shocking and is how that same thing was applied to completely non-violent, innocent, everyday people. "We're familiar with that as a tactic in other police dramas, like Line Of Duty, where we expect undercover officers to assume identities and go and fight organised crime or terrorist cells. Through the ongoing inquiry, we're uncovering new victims of undercover policing all the time," says James Graham. "I wanted to tell lots of different stories inspired by historic events, traumas or anxieties. He'd left a girl he had made so many promises to." Sherwood writer, James Graham, on spy cops
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He'd gone away too soon, he'd left too soon. "Definitely now, at the time no, but with what happened after the strike we thought there was a reason for this.
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Mr O'Sullivan has also spoken of his suspicions that one individual he knew at the time - whom he refuses to name - was an undercover police officer. You can be part of the community that way." "You can't do it infiltrate the community a week before the strike - you can do it two years before the strike. That didn't happen because of the strike, it started years before. "They tapped our phones, they infiltrated into us. They spent billions to defeat us," said Mr O'Sullivan. "We were a huge threat to the government. Tyrone O'Sullivan, former NUM branch secretary, told the BBC he's convinced that undercover officers infiltrated the union's ranks during the strike and fed information back to the police, who in turn passed intelligence on to Margaret Thatcher's government. There's no solid evidence that the government infiltrated mining communities, but the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has been given core participant status at the inquiry, meaning it gives evidence and hope to find out if they were spied on. Did undercover officers spy on miners during the strike? When Lisa Jones - who uses a pseudonym - and her friends established that Kennedy was a police officer, it set in motion a chain of events that unearthed what many people consider to be one of the most closely guarded secrets in police history. “I just remember that the mountains were pulsating and swimming around me.” “I remember feeling that the world was suddenly a really long way away,” she said. In 2010 while they were on holiday in Greece, she discovered his real passport, with the name Mark Kennedy inside and a mobile phone containing emails from two children, calling her boyfriend “Dad”. One of the most infamous spy cop cases involves an environmental activist named Lisa Jones, who told The Guardian about her relationship with a fellow activist named Mark Stone. Spy cops are alleged to have infiltrated a number of left-wing and progressive organisations, such as London Greenpeace, Reclaim the Streets and The Socialist Party.
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The inquiry is examining the conduct of two police units, the Metropolitan Police Special Demonstration Squad and the undercover section of the National Public Order Intelligence. The inquiry, which will be hearing evidence from more than 200 witnesses, including the officers involved as well as people who were spied on, is not expected to publish its findings until at least 2023. Campaigners have criticized the slow pace of proceedings. It was first called for by then-Home Secretary Theresa May in 2014, after it emerged that Scotland Yard had spied on the family of Stephen Lawrence following his murder. It's examining the conduct of more than 130 spy cops, with some shocking allegations being made. The Undercover Policing Inquiry is currently looking into the tactics and activities of undercover police officers who operated in the UK. The spy cops scandal is currently the subject of an ongoing public inquiry. It's alleged that police forces used hundreds of spy cops to report on organizations and protest groups between 19. Undercover police officers are known to have had intimate relationships and even fathered children with people they were spying on, often leading double lives for years.