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| One point about the use of dead children's birth certificates to create fake IDs for undercover policemen (Report, 7 February) that is not mentioned much is the question of why they did it at all? There is a well-established police procedure for this, involving the creation of totally fake IDs, including all official records (eg driving licences) and also bank accounts/credit cards (with co-operation from the banks). This is better than the method chosen as it allows such identities to be backdated to arbitrary earlier starting points and gives a much rounder history. The question is, why was it done this way? It seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that this was in large part a rogue operation by the units concerned, who knew they would never get a fake identity request past their superiors, but went ahead anyway by the alternative route. Mark Austin Mitcham, Surrey | One point about the use of dead children's birth certificates to create fake IDs for undercover policemen (Report, 7 February) that is not mentioned much is the question of why they did it at all? There is a well-established police procedure for this, involving the creation of totally fake IDs, including all official records (eg driving licences) and also bank accounts/credit cards (with co-operation from the banks). This is better than the method chosen as it allows such identities to be backdated to arbitrary earlier starting points and gives a much rounder history. The question is, why was it done this way? It seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that this was in large part a rogue operation by the units concerned, who knew they would never get a fake identity request past their superiors, but went ahead anyway by the alternative route. Mark Austin Mitcham, Surrey |
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