The second phase of the first tranche of the Undercover Policing Inquiry is currently ongoing.

This episode is two different chats about what's been happening:

First Chris Brian from the Undercover Research Group talks to Penny about Day 9, when we heard from HN298 "Michael Scott" & "Mary.

Second, Tom Fowler talks to "Lisa" - https://twitter.com/JustLisa2010 about Day 11 when we heard from Celia Stubbs.

As ever, find out more at https://www.spycops.info

The Undercover Policing Inquiry has returned for Phase 2 of the first tranche of evidence. Here is a mixed bag of reflections on the first week.

You can read detailed daily and weekly reports on what is happening at the inquiry: http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/ucpi-public-inquiry/

You can also tune in to live reaction videos whenever the inquiry goes to a break: https://www.facebook.com/groups/spycops

Referred to as HN345 at the inquiry, the undercover officer who went by the alias "Peter Fredericks" as not deployed against any one specific group but reported back on an number, including the Black Power movement, Operation Omega and Young Haganah for six months in 1971.

You can read more about him here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Peter_Fredericks_(alias)

Referred to as HN2 at the inquiry, Andy Coles went by the alias "Andy Davey" when he infiltrated animal rights and anti war groups in London between 1991 to 1995. Whilst deployed, despite being 32 and married with a baby daughter, he used his undercover role to manipulate and deceive a 19 year old woman who now uses the alias "Jessica" into a year-long intimate sexual relationship.

You can read more about him here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Andy_Coles

You can find "Jessica"'s story in full here: https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/our-stories/jessicas-story-2/

Retired #spycops officer HN326 alias "Doug Edwards" was deployed between 1968 and 1971.

He infiltrated West Ham Anarchists where 'things got a bit tasty' as well as '"very pleasant, sociable people wrapped up in the world of intellectual Marxism" in the Independent Labour Party.

Read more about him here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Douglas_Edwards_(alias)