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Police: Undercover Officers

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Commonwealth Summit: Human Rights
Wednesday 21st March 2018

(6 years, 9 months ago)

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Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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My noble friend is absolutely right—of course, it protects the safety of those people as well.

Lord Soley Portrait Lord Soley (Lab)
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Will the Minister also confirm that this is not just a matter of rules and regulations? If it went on for so long, there must have been a serious management failure, because the relationship between a senior officer and the person doing the job is crucial in terms of keeping a check on their behaviour. That seems to me—as an outsider—not to have happened, and it is what we ought to focus on.

Baroness Williams of Trafford Portrait Baroness Williams of Trafford
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I would not like to speak for the chair of the inquiry, but I am sure that some of the institutional failures that happened way back in the day will be looked at.

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