Pickets and police outside the Timex factory in Dundee, 1993
WORKERS on strike in one of Scotland’s biggest industrial disputes were spied on by undercover police officers, a new report suggests.
Calls are growing for a new public inquiry into police spying in Scotland, a proposal backed by politicians including Scottish Labour’s Neil Findlay, or to extend the remit of the controversial ongoing Mitting inquiry, which covers only England and Wales.
Now the Scottish Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance has compiled evidence showing that undercover officers from the elite police squads, which the inquiry is investigating, also operate north of the border.
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