ITV drama lifts lid on chilling police scandal kept hidden for 40 years
ITV drama lifts lid on chilling police scandal kept hidden for 40 years
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A new ITV drama will reveal all about the devastation more than 60 women faced due to an undercover police scandal. ITV and ITVX have announced a new three-part documentary series called The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed, which will explain how a set of undercover police officers were paid to spy on ordinary members of the public.
Over 60 women were affected by these covert operations, where the undercover officers ended up in deeply intimate relationships with a number of women, who had no idea to their true identity. Dubbed the spycops scandal, there was an £88million decade-long public inquiry into the scandal. Five women have now opened up about what they went through for the new documentary, and how they managed to turn the tables on the police.
The women who feature in the documentary have said: "We've been working together to expose this policing scandal since we first met in 2011. Our lives were devastated by the actions of undercover police and this powerful documentary highlights how we fought back against dehumanising spycops intrusion and abuse, which was sanctioned by the state for decades to undermine progressive campaigns for change.
"By shining a light on the role of these undemocratic, secret, political policing units, we hope the series is part of a dramatic shift away from the culture of misogyny that the police and security services have normalised and puts pressure on decision makers to reverse the current legislation that places undercover officers completely beyond the law.".
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