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| Subject: Britain's largest poLICE force stole the identities of about 80 dead children for fake aliases Tue Feb 05, 2013 3:02 am | |
| Britain's largest police force stole the identities of about 80 dead children and issued fake passports in their names for use by undercover officers.
London's Metropolitan Police secretly authorised the practice for officers infiltrating protest groups without consulting or informing the children's parents.
An investigation found that, over three decades, officers trawled birth and death records for suitable matches. Aliases were created based on the dead children's details and officers were issued with driving licences and national insurance numbers.
Some spent 10 years pretending to be people who had died.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/police-stole-dead-childrens-identities-for-fake-aliases-20130204-2dufj.html#ixzz2K0fD5qCE
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