JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill has been asked to check that the scandal of Metropolitan Police undercover officers stealing children's identities never happened in Scotland.
JUSTICE Secretary Kenny MacAskill has been asked to check that the scandal of Metropolitan Police undercover officers stealing children's identities never happened in Scotland.
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ROBBIE DINWOODIE
The revelations involving the Special Demonstration Squad of the Metropolitan Police prompted demands for assurance that the use of family tragedies to create undercover identities had not happened here.
The period during the 1970s and 1980s when this abuse happened as the Met tackled animal rights and other groups also coincided with the poll tax struggle and other areas of mass protest, prompting some to ask whether the abuse happened here.
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