The Argus: Police 'spied' on anti-fracking protesters
POLICE spied on anti-fracking protesters and shared the information with Cuadrilla – a police blunder has revealed.
Sussex Police used covert surveillance to monitor the protests at Balcombe last summer, however it was supposed to be a secret redacted from published papers.
The slip-up emerged in a report compiled by Hertfordshire and Essex Police into the handling of the protests at energy company Cuadrilla’s test drilling site in Balcombe. It was released last week by Sussex Police in response to a request under the Freedom of Information Act. It includes a section that was redacted. However, the sensitive information could simply be revealed by changing the colour of the text in a Word document.