Boom Box documentary casts spotlight on unethical tactics of undercover policing

Four-part series examines aftermath of Operation Peyzac, in which officers in London posed as music industry figures to gather intelligence on crime

It was the undercover police operation that led to 37 people being jailed for more than 400 years in total after officers set up a fake recording studio and record shop on a north London housing estate.

Now, a four-part television documentary has brought Operation Peyzac back under the spotlight, prompting renewed scrutiny of the tactics used by undercover officers and calls for the operation to be examined by the UK’s ongoing spycops inquiry.