Skip to main content
The Morning Star 2026 Conference
Victims of police sex lies slam new codes
Undercover cops still allowed to have sex with targets.

Undercover police are still being given "free rein" to have sex with their targets, according to eight women who fell victim to the shocking practice.

The group, who are suing Scotland Yard, made submissions to a consultation on codes of practice for surveillance and say the government is failing to prevent officers from starting sexual relationships with the people they're spying on.

They said the failure "to introduce measures to prevent further abuse amounts to institutional sexism."

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Similar stories
The Lady Justice statue atop the Central Criminal Court
International Women’s Day 2026 / 7 March 2026
7 March 2026

Legal frameworks designed to safeguard women are too often weaponised against them, reinforcing male power and entrenching injustice. The FiLiA Ending MVAWG Team highlight some of the issues

A camera on top of a Live Facial Recognition (LFR) van during a demonstration of facial recognition technology by Surrey and Sussex Police at Surrey Police headquarters in Guildford, November 11, 2025
Policing / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025
ABUSE IGNORED: Children walk through Rotherham, one of the many northern towns ripped apart by decades of systematic grooming
Features / 20 June 2025
20 June 2025

To quell the public anger and silence the far right, Labour has rushed out a report so that it can launch a National Inquiry — ANN CZERNIK examines Baroness Casey’s incendiary audit and finds fatal flaws that fail to 'draw a line' under the scandal as hoped