In June 2013 Peter Francis, a former Metropolitan police officer, broke a 20-year silence(打破20年的沉默) about the role he had played in surveilling(监视) the family of Stephen Lawrence in a documentary jointly made by the Guardian and Channel 4’s Dispatches programme. Two years later, thanks in part to(部分归功于) the programme, the Home Office established an undercover policing inquiry, commonly known as the spycops public inquiry, to shed light on(阐明，揭示) the scale of surveillance of activists and trade unionists. That inquiry is now under threat(受到威胁).
2013年6月，前伦敦警察厅警官彼得·弗朗西斯在《卫报》与第四频道《快讯》节目联合制作的纪录片中，打破20年沉默，讲述了自己曾参与监视斯蒂芬·劳伦斯一家的角色。两年后，部分得益于该节目，内政部设立了卧底警务调查，俗称“卧底警察公开调查”，旨在揭示对活动人士和工会成员监视的规模。如今，这项调查正面临威胁。
Francis had served in the Special Demonstration Squad(特别示威小队（警方秘密单位）) (SDS), a Met unit(伦敦警察厅的部门) founded in 1968 whose officers lived for years at a time inside political and campaigning organisations under false names(使用假名).
弗朗西斯曾在特别示威小队（SDS）服役，这是伦敦警察厅的一个部门，成立于1968年，其警官曾以假名在政治和竞选组织内部一待就是多年。
In the months after Stephen Lawrence’s murder in 1993 Francis had been deployed(被派遣，部署) to pose as(假扮成) an anti-racist campaigner. His superiors pressed him to find “dirt(丑闻，黑料)” that could be used against the Lawrence family and their supporters. Stephen’s mother, Doreen, told the Guardian and Channel 4 that nothing she had heard since her son died had topped the revelation that police had been spying on her while she grieved.(斯蒂芬的母亲多琳告诉《卫报》和第四频道，自儿子去世以来，她听到的任何消息都不及这个揭露更令她震惊：警方竟在她悲痛时一直监视她。) She had always suspected the police were watching. She never had proof.
1993年斯蒂芬·劳伦斯被谋杀后的几个月里，弗朗西斯被派去假扮反种族主义活动人士。他的上级催促他寻找可以用来对付劳伦斯一家及其支持者的“黑料”。斯蒂芬的母亲多琳告诉《卫报》和第四频道，自儿子去世以来，她所听到的任何消息都不及这个揭露更令她震惊：警方竟在她悲痛时一直监视她。她一直怀疑警方在监视，但从未有证据。