Support for an Undercover Policing Inquiry for Scotland

That the Parliament notes with concern the undercover infiltration of political, activist and justice campaign groups in Scotland by, it understands, the Special Demonstration Squad and the National Public Order Intelligence Unit; firmly opposes this type of political undercover policing and believes that infiltrations of this kind have no place in a democratic society; understands that one tactic of these infiltrations was for officers to form long-term intimate relationships with women activists; notes that the Metropolitan Police Service has admitted these practices and apologised for the behaviour of its undercover officers, which, in its own words, was "abusive, deceitful, manipulative and wrong", and were a "gross violation"; considers that, while the existing Undercover Policing Inquiry covers England and Wales, to date the victims of related undercover operations in Scotland continue to be excluded from justice, and calls on the inquiry to be extended to Scotland without further delay or alternatively that the Scottish Government initiates its own independent inquiry.