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Right to protest compromised by police secrecy

Monday, 30 October 2017

Our Senior Associate, Helen Mills recently wrote for the National Union for Journalists' website, about our latest report, The undercover policing of political protest.

She writes,

Undercover policing is not about a small group of ‘troublemakers’. It is not simply about one ‘rotten’ unit in the police. It is about the approach to policing in a democracy and the right to peaceful protest without fear of intrusion and interference from the authorities.

You can find out more about the project here.