The deployment of secret undercover political police into protest groups for years at a time is shocking. But it’s only part of the story of the UK state’s covert human surveillance of activists. Once someone ended up with a #spycops officer in their life, that was only the start of being under scrutiny. Through the Undercover Policing Inquiry process we have heard of many of the other tactics that have been used to target campaigners. The Special Branch undercover police would share their intelligence with the Security services MI5, who issued the officers with ‘shopping lists’ of information on dissidents they were interested in. We heard reference to individual informers who were active within organisations for over 20 years. Since the closing down of the original spycops units, the use of infiltration methods that do not include the field deployment of serving police officers has only grown.