COPS campaign

@copscampaign.bsky.social

Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance, an alliance of people spied on by the #spycops of Britain's political secret police.

Just before she became a defendant in the McLibel trial, Helen Steel was deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer John Dines. He left her 2 years later. When she traced him to New Zealand, police spent £2.5m tracking her & preventing her finding him. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner

Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship

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We're nowhere near the end of the public inquiry to find the truth about #spycops (it hasn't even mentioned Mark Kennedy yet), but the Home Office is looking to curtail it. We've just formally written to them demanding that the inquiry continues campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/07/22/s...

Spycops Victims Demand Home Office Scrap Consultation

People spied on by Britain's political secret police demand the Home Office cancels plans to curtail the public inquiry

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#Spycops officer Andy Coles at the Undercover Policing Inquiry, asked why he put sexual appraisals of women in official police reports. A notorious sex pest among hunt sabs he infiltrated, he deceived a vulnerable 19 year old into a relationship. He's a Tory local election candidate in #Peterborough

Unique among #spycops who deceived women into relationships, Andy Coles denies he ever did it. He's told that lie to Peterborough Conservatives & so, despite the overwhelming evidence, he maintains it. He's standing in the local elections, but Jessica, who he abused, is leafleting the entire ward

Leaflet being distributed in Peterborough about Andy Coles's spycop career, headed NOT FIT FOR PUBLIC OFFICEA box of leafelts about Andy Coles's spycop career, ready for distribution in Peterborough

New - our report on 'Monica' giving evidence to the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Jim Boyling in the 90s, her testimony is a harrowing illustration of the depths the pointless infiltrations sunk to campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/04/15/u...

UCPI Daily Report, 3 Feb 2026: 'Monica' evidence

The Undercover Policing Inquiry hears from 'Monica', and activist deceived into an intimate relationship by spycop Jim Boyling in 1997

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#Spycops officer Robert Hastings didn't just deceive 'Maya' into an abusive relationship - 7 years later, sacked by police for domestic violence, he rekindled the relationship. She finished with her partner of 5 years then Hastings disappeared again. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Undercover police officer was sacked for assaulting partner, spycops inquiry hears

Conviction revealed during questioning of Rob Hastings about a second woman whom he deceived into intimate relationship

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#spycops officer 'Simon Wellings' outed himself by butt-dialling someone in anti-capitalist Globalise Resistance while in a police meeting. Despite his cover being blown he kept his job & spent years getting protest info online & reporting it as if he'd been there www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Undercover police officer exposed by his own blunder, spycops inquiry hears

Officer said he held himself responsible for accidentally phoning activist while in secret special branch meeting

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