Undercover Police Officer May Have Taken Part In Trial Using False Name

Undercover Police Officer May Have Taken Part In Trial Using False Name

Scotland Yard has called in the police watchdog over allegations that an undercover officer took part in a criminal trial under a false name.

Jim Boyling, a specialist operations Detective Constable with the Met Police, is accused of maintaining an alias throughout court proceedings after being arrested following a demonstration in 1996.

Scotland Yard has contacted the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) "with a view to making a formal referral to them tomorrow", a force spokesman said.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "The MPS has tonight, Thursday October 20, contacted the IPCC with a view to making a formal referral to them tomorrow.

"This follows consideration today of allegations relating to historic covert police deployments."

The allegations forced the postponement of the publication of a review of the future of undercover policing, which was scheduled for Thursday, and had been compiled by new Scotland Yard Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe before he took the force's top job last month.

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