Senior former cops have been accused of training Chinese police who could serve in the country’s Xinjiang province where Uyghurs are persecuted.
And it is claimed they only stopped when they were about to be exposed in a shock report by campaign group Freedom from Torture – which also revealed £71,000 of British aid money was going into the project.
London Policing College had a five-year contract, running until 2023, to train cadets from Chinese police academies in counter-terrorism using the UK’s Prevent strategy.