John Mitting News Today

Sir John Mitting will rule on whether undercover officers broke the law by deceiving women into romantic relationships. He needs to cancel his membership, says Alison, a founder member of Police Spies Out of Lives

Shami Chakrabarti urges home secretary to address lack of safeguards around undercover operations after latest revelations

Alison was unknowingly in a relationship with an undercover cop for more than five years. She, along with 26 other women, has helped to expose one of the biggest scandals in British policing history

In today’s newsletter: Guardian business correspondent Alex Lawson on how things got so bad for the private water company, and where we go from here

An undercover UK policing unit that spied on hundreds of campaign groups over decades should have been shut down as its tactics were unjustified, a report concluded on Thursday.- Unjustified - Mitting concluded that while the unit did help policing preparations, its role should not be overstated.

The Metropolitan Police Special Demonstration Squad spied on hundreds of campaign groups over four decades.

The public inquiry, which has been going on for more than eight years, has seen its first report released this morning and found six members of the Metropolitan Police duped women into having sex

Today’s interim report is right to say the police operation was unjustifiable, but says too little about its architects, and the women like me who suffered, says Alison, a founder member of Police Spies Out of Lives

Campaigners are calling for all secret police files on them to be released and the publication of all of the names of undercover officers

An undercover UK policing unit that spied on hundreds of campaign groups over decades should have been shut down.