A former Metropolitan Police officer who had a sexual relationship with a woman he was spying on in a secretive undercover unit would have kept his job if he was still a serving officer, a tribunal panel ruled.
Former detective constable James Boyling, of the Met’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), was found to have committed gross misconduct over his relationship with the woman, known only as Monica, for six months in 1997 while infiltrating the environmental activist group Reclaim the Streets.
