13 January 2017
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"Counter-terrorism money is being used to redact police evidence to an inquiry into undercover policing tactics, it has been revealed.
Nearly £750,000 from the counter-terrorism budget has been earmarked for an IT system to assess and redact material which might be sent to the Pitchford Undercover Policing Inquiry, according to papers obtained from a Freedom of Information request and seen by the website PoliceOracle.com.
The inquiry, chaired by senior judge Sir Christopher Pitchford, was set up after it emerged that undercover officers including Mark Kennedy, of the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU), had slept with activists while infiltrating protest movements."
See the article: Counter-terrorism money being spent on redacting evidence to inquiry on undercover policing (The Independent, link)
And see: on further questions raised by the reports in The Independent and Police Oracle: Counter-terrorism money to sort out police chaotic record keeping (Undercover Research Group, link)
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