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A huge cannabis farm has been discovered just yards away from Manchester’s main police station.

More than 300 plants, valued at up to £100,000, were being grown under the noses of cops at Bootle Street Police Station.

The illicit crop was inside a disused, six-storey office building on Peter Street in the city centre – less than 20 yards from the station.

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Usually, it is the police who kettle protesters. The tables were turned, though, when demonstrators unmasked and surrounded a plain-clothes officer who had infiltrated their midst during this week's public sector protests.

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The Metropolitan Police has secret spy planes capable of eavesdropping on mobile phone calls from the sky.

The existence of the fleet of planes - each costing at least £3 million to purchase and hundreds of thousands more to operate - has never been publicly disclosed.

The police have being using the planes since at least 1997.

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At the centre of the latest controversy is a set of documents, obtained by the Guardian and the BBC's Newsnight, indicating that another police spy, Jim Boyling, who lived undercover among the environmental group Reclaim the Streets, concealed his identity in a criminal trial, giving false evidence under oath about his real name.

The accusation that police deliberately subverted the judicial process, and at worst sanctioned perjury, prompted outrage among lawyers and parts of the judiciary and led to the last-minute postponement of a major report into undercover policing of protests by the newly appointed commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Bernard Hogan-Howe.

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He turned up with long hair, tattoos and an insatiable appetite for climbing trees. Few people suspected anything odd of the man who introduced himself as Mark Stone on a dairy farm turned spiritual sanctuary in North Yorkshire.

He had come alone on 12 August 2003, in the middle of a heatwave, for a gathering of environmental activists known as Earth First.

Apart from the fact that "Stone" was apparently well-paid and ate meat, he appeared no different from the hundreds of other activists who gathered under marquees to smoke weed, play guitars and plan protests.

What no one could have known was that, despite appearances, the 33-year-old "freelance climber" was actually PC Mark Kennedy, an undercover police officer beginning an audacious operation to live deep undercover among environmental activists.

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'In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind enemy lines." That is the tagline for the movie Donnie Brasco, the story of an undercover FBI agent who infiltrated the mafia. How do you think the trailer for the movie of the Metropolitan police's calamitous undercover spying operation would run? "For decades, Scotland Yard waged a war against pro-cycling campaigners and people worried about where some bats would go if a wood was reduced in size. Several were left behind enemy lines. But what they didn't bargain on was falling in love!"

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A gun dealer was trapped after police set up a fake shop selling combat clothing.

Undercover cops posed as shop workers who were looking for lethal weapons in the elaborate sting.

The store was set up after police became concerned at the number of firearms on the streets of Manchester.

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The Brazilian police force is getting a little bit Terminator on its citizens. Well, on its criminals at least.

No, they haven't built a humanoid killer, they've just taken a cue from the augmented, analytical sight capabilities of cinema cyborgs. In the next few weeks, Brazilian police will begin testing pairs of " RoboCop" glasses, which can identify a criminal's face in a crowd of people.

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At about 1:00am last night a group of around eight police officers attempted to forcefully enter the OK Café on Liverpool Road, Castlefield. MULE reporter Tim Hunt witnessed the events.

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Many slang terms for police officers exist. The terms are also applied by inmates toward uniformed prison staff. These are often used by the public rather than the police themselves. Many are considered offensive.

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