Peter Francis, a former Metropolitan Police Special Branch officer whose whistleblowing exposed the existence and practices of the Special Demonstration Squad, told an inquiry that he had visited a graveyard on instruction from a senior officer.
It was “standard practice” in the squad to use the identity of a dead child to create a plausible cover story, but different officers had different methods of identifying possible dead children, the undercover policing inquiry in central London heard. One senior officer advised Francis that he should visit a graveyard to look for dead children whose names and birth certificates he could use.
Well, only if there’s an illustrated version, or a sergeant tells them what the long words mean.
I thought a lot of effort was applied to match birth & early death records after ‘Jackal’ was published, but perhaps TPTB are lying about that.
I don’t think you can get a passport that way any more. But you can still get an identity, perhaps?
Hard to do today as you pretty much can’t get a grave in the UK unless you booked it years ago. And no one ever plans on burying a child. At least not one that’s already been born.
Policemen should only use inconspicuous fake names generated by top civil service experts (Geordie) such as Barry Chucklefarts or Harry Nads.