The British Parliament has summoned a senior police chief to ask about conditions under which police was secretly authorized to steal identities of at least 80 children.
The parliamentary committee hearing will be held on Tuesday with Pat Gallan, the Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner in charge of the complaints department, responding to the revelations, British media reported.
Earlier, the daily The Guardian said in an investigative report that for three decades police have been using the identities of dead children, without informing or consulting their parents, through infiltrating protest groups.
The report revealed that how two undercover police officers and others have been using the identities of dead children.
Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs select committee has said he is “shocked” at the “gruesome” practice.
“The committee will hear from those who have been involved in undercover operations as well as their victims,” he said. “I have asked the deputy assistant commissioner Pat Gallan to deal with the issues that have arisen.”
The operation is known to have been orchestrated by the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), a secretive Met unit disbanded in 2008, according to the report.
Dozens of SDS officers are believed to have searched through birth and death certificates to find a child who had died young and would be a suitable match for their alias.
The officers then adopted the entire identity of the child as if the child had never died. One police officer has said the process was like “resurrecting” a dead person’s identity.
The disclosure comes after two years of revelations concerning undercover police officers having sexual relationships with women they are spying on. Eleven women are currently bringing legal action against the Met for damages.
“The activities of undercover police officers caused disbelief when they were revealed in 2011. These revelations [about the use of dead children's identities] are shocking”, Vaz said.
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