Undercover policing inquiry: secretive Met unit shredded files

Watchdog says intelligence officers destroyed documents despite being told to keep them

A secretive Scotland Yard intelligence unit shredded a large number of documents after a public inquiry was set up into the undercover infiltration of political groups, a watchdog has found.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) announced on Wednesday that it had found that documents had been destroyed despite an instruction that they had to be preserved.