Police spied on group set up to expose wrongdoing in Met, inquiry hears

Undercover officers secretly monitored a community organisation that sought to expose wrongdoing and corruption in the Metropolitan police, the spycops public inquiry has heard. Previously secret reports show that the Hackney Community Defence Association (HCDA) in east London and its key organiser were monitored by police spies for a decade. The HCDA helped victims of police violence to successfully take legal action against the Met as a way of holding them to account. The organisation also hel