Undercover Police 'Stole' Dead Children's IDs

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Undercover police officers working for the Metropolitan Police assumed the identities of dead children and were issued fake passports in their names, it has been claimed.

Britain's largest police force allegedly carried out the practice for three decades without consulting or informing the children's parents.

According to a report in The Guardian, officers would scan national birth and death records to find the identities to use for undercover work infiltrating protest groups.


Link: Undercover Police 'Stole' Dead Children's IDs - Yahoo! News UK

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I can not see the reason using dead children info when it?s the Home Office who is in charge of giving passports to the community, so why the under cover police officers were not given passport from the Home Office to perform the duty?

The only other reason I can see those officers must have been crooks.

[Snowy79]

It's the same method that scam artists used to use to get bank accounts and credit cards. What is probably not highlighted is they assume identities that when checked by the criminal element come up clean.

Remember the scum have also people working for HMRC etc that can do background checks. If they were working say undercover investigating major drug rings, terrorists or people traffickers. If they used their own names or that of someone with a traceable background chances are they would end up under some new Motorway etc.

Too many keft wing fannies trying to make life easier for the scum than supporting the public that suffer at the hands of them. They were only using their names for the benefit of us, they never killed the kids ffs.

[pantomime horse]

got to agree with you snowy
if it saves a life then its worth it

[DogdySnigwirter]

Remember the scum have also people working for HMRC etc that can do background checks.
Too many keft wing fannies trying to make life easier for the scum than supporting the public that suffer at the hands of them.

You make reference to the criminal as scum which is a common term for Police Officers to use in relation to people who commit crime.
People commit crime for different reason, some to put food on the table, others shoplift for clothing etc.

The criminals I detest the most are the very ones you defend, Police Officers.

All too often you hear of incidents that betray the trust of the public, even the IPCC is corrupt with too many ex officers on the board. Police officers as a whole are permissible bullies who always take a simple verbal confrontation to 'breach of the peace' for an arrest if you say anything untoward using profanity or not. The excessive use of force to make an arrest that would put any member of the public in court for GBH or Section 18.
Pound for pound there is no other profession that has so many employees who commit some sort of criminality and gets away with so blatantly, deaths at the hand of an officer, backhanders, rape, bullying.
OK you can argue there are some good coppers out there but the public don't want some of them to be good, they want all of them to be honest and true to the profession and what it was established to do.

[johnboy1974]

Disgusting and now causes more suffering to the parents. Currently the police complaints commission is in meltdown with their workload. The police in this country need thoroughly looked at immediately.

[TheCoder]

A typical press non-story !

Using the identity of the deceased by undercover law enforcement is typical in most countries as its far, far easier and safer to do this than to try to invent 'new' aliases from scratch. Its phenomenal the amount of documentation generated just by 'living' these days and a lot of this stuff can be referenced by criminals making 'real' identities much safer.

There's actualy a department within the home office thats pretty much dedicated to creating new identities for a whole range of people from undercover Police right through to witness protection. Most of these identities utilise data from deceased persons, not necessarily children.

I can only surmise that the press were having a slow-news day if they've decided to print something thats already pretty obvious to anybody that gives it more than a passing thought.

[nara]

Exactly!

Standard practice that does nobody any harm and helps in the fight against the bad guys.

Just the usual press tactic of trying to get us worked up about sweet fa.

[johnboy1974]

Wonder if they were using their real names when 6 of them set about my dad in the back of a van.

[firemouth]

I really dont see the problem, though i agree who gets these identity's should be well vetted.

just how does this hurt the parents of the dead child?
unless of course some dump newspapers start publishing the names.