Rejected petition End the use of child spies in the Covert Human Intelligence Sources programme.

Rejected on 27 July 2018

The Home Office currently approves the use of vulnerable children under their Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) programme concerning child sex exploitation, terrorism and gangs. They want to extend CHIS so children can be coerced into these terrible situations for up to 4 months.

Putting vulnerable children in such dangerous situations knowingly and deliberately gives the government no moral superiority over the criminal organisations they seek to stop.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uk-child-spies-terror-drugs-grooming-gangs-police-intelligence-security-services-a8456086.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/20/the-guardian-view-on-police-and-child-spies-ends-dont-always-justify-the-means

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/225416

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