Undercover Met police unit collected information on families for decades

Police chiefs aware that Special Demonstration Squad, seen as an out-of-control force within a force, 'had lost moral compass'

The Scotland Yard undercover unit that gathered intelligence on 18 grieving families was known by police chiefs six years ago to have been so out of control it had "lost [its] moral compass" and become a "force within a force".

The claims from a source closely involved in discussions on winding up the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) in 2008 came as a report for the Metropolitan police revealed intelligence was gathered across three decades on family campaigns challenging the Metropolitan police. In several cases the families' struggles exposed the force as failing and telling untruths.

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