Police chiefs ‘unaware of undercover officers’ sexual relationships with women’

Inquiry told officers' practice of deceiving women into relationships was endemic and common'

All of the senior police managers giving evidence to a public inquiry have maintained they did not know that the undercover officers they were supervising had formed sexual relationships with women during their covert deployments.

The inquiry, which is scrutinising the covert infiltration of political groups, has heard that the practice of undercover officers deceiving women into relationships was endemic and common".