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What action, we might ask, has been taken to rectify these issues? Civil society groups, such as Police Spies Out of Lives and Justice, continue to expose the gulf between formal assurances and lived experience, documenting ongoing patterns of misconduct, institutional sexism and the psychological harm caused by abusive deployments. Their work is vital, rigorous and should give Parliament pause before accepting any claim that the current framework is functioning as intended. The Berkshire case remains the most visible illustration of what happens when internal safeguards fail, but it is far from an isolated historical anomaly. The ongoing undercover policing inquiry, to which many brave women from Police Spies Out of Lives campaign are core participants, continues to uncover and reveal cases of systematic deception, including long-term intimate relationships, initiated by police officers in the course of this undercover work.