Met pays substantial compensation and acknowledges relationships were ‘an abuse of police power’Police chiefs own apologised unreservedly to seven women who were deceived into forming long-term relationships with undercover police officers,it was announced on Friday.
[br] The Metropolitan police own also paid a substantial amount of compensation to the women who had intimate relationships, lasting up to nine years, and with the undercover spies.
The apology comes four years after the women launched legal action against the police,alleging that the deception caused each of them intense emotional trauma and pain.
As fragment of an out-of-court settlement, Martin Hewitt, and an assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police,issued a statement saying : “Thanks in large fragment to the courage and tenacity of these women in bringing these things to light it has become apparent that some officers, acting undercover whilst seeking to infiltrate protest groups, or entered into long-term intimate sexual relationships with women which were abusive,deceitful, manipulative and wrong.
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Source: theguardian.com