Sex 'part of undercover policing'

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;01&sol;sex-part-of-undercover-policing&period;jpg"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full" title&equals;"Promiscuity is seen as part of the job of undercover policing&comma; an agent has told a newspaper" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2011&sol;01&sol;min-sex-part-of-undercover-policing&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Promiscuity is seen as part of the job of undercover policing&comma; an agent has told a newspaper"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Police used sex as a tool during undercover operations &&num;8211&semi; and tactical &&num;8220&semi;promiscuity&&num;8221&semi;&comma; sanctioned by senior commanders&comma; was viewed as &&num;8220&semi;part of the job&&num;8221&semi;&comma; a former agent revealed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The officer&comma; who worked in a secretive unit of the Metropolitan Police for four years&comma; said sexual relationships with activists were common among those gathering intelligence from anarchist&comma; left-wing and environmental groups&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His claims&comma; made to The Observer&comma; contradict comments made last week by the Association of Chief Police Officers &lpar;Acpo&rpar; which insisted the practise was forbidden&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the former officer&comma; once a member the Special Demonstration Squad &lpar;SDS&rpar;&comma; a covert unit formed to prevent violent disorder on the streets of London&comma; said sex helped to maintain cover&period; The man&comma; who was not named&comma; admitted to sleeping with at least two of his female targets for information&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Everybody knew it was a very promiscuous lifestyle&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he told the paper&period; &&num;8220&semi;You cannot not be promiscuous in those groups&period; Otherwise you&&num;8217&semi;ll stand out straight away&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; there was also no set of instructions dictating whether officers could or could not have sex with activists&comma; he claimed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Among fellow undercover officers&comma; there is not really any kudos in the fact that you are shagging other people while deployed&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Basically it&&num;8217&semi;s just regarded as part of the job&period; It&&num;8217&semi;d be highly unlikely that you were not &lpar;having sex&rpar;&period; When you are using the tool of sex to maintain your cover or maybe to glean more intelligence &&num;8211&semi; because they certainly talk a lot more&comma; pillow talk &&num;8211&semi; you would be ready to move on if you felt an attachment growing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; the officer&comma; who infiltrated anti-racist groups between 1993 and 1997&comma; said falling in love could jeopardise an investigation and was regarded as unprofessional&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His revelations follow the controversy surrounding former Met officer Pc Mark Kennedy who monitored the actions of protesters across Europe under the guise of a long-haired&comma; drop-out climber called Mark Stone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ee630fc06ae">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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