{"id":15957,"date":"2012-09-30T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T13:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=15957"},"modified":"2012-09-30T14:37:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T13:37:57","slug":"revealed-secret-police-operation-to-infiltrate-animal-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/revealed-secret-police-operation-to-infiltrate-animal-rights-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Secret police operation to infiltrate animal rights group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2210483\/Police-mistake-FoI-response-reveals-undercover-operation-infiltrate-extremist-animal-rights-group.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mail Online<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p><span>A police mistake in a response to a Freedom of Information request accidentally exposed an undercover operation to infiltrate a group of animal rights extremists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The police force &#8211; which has not been named &#8211; released a report with sensitive information blacked out after a request under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But when the report by the Office of Surveillance Commissioners (OSC) was copied and pasted into another document, the redactions disappeared and the sensitive information was revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Times newspaper reports that the document showed that a secret police unit that monitors domestic extremism is involved in the operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The document also revealed that the operation is so top secret that the names of undercover officers involved are not being listed on the usual high security computer systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The operation is being run by the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) &#8211; the same organisation who oversaw undercover officer Mark Kennedy whose cover was blown by environmental activist in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Met officer Kennedy spent eight years infiltrating activist groups throughout Britain and Europe, posing as long-haired activist &#8216;Mark Stone&#8217;, until his real identity was discovered.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mail Online | A police mistake in a response to a Freedom of Information request accidentally exposed an undercover operation to infiltrate a group of animal rights extremists. The police force &#8211; which has not been named &#8211; released a report with sensitive information blacked out after a request under the Freedom of Information Act. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1615],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-15957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-uk-news","8":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}