Guardian: Cambridgeshire Police appear to have said relatively little following the revelation that police attempted to recruit a young activist to spy on students and other campaigners.
However Simon Parr, the Cambridgeshire chief constable, has intimated that his force was only doing what police forces across the country are doing.
The BBC has quoted him as saying :"We are gathering intelligence from a number of sources as every force does, on things we believe may be of interest in keeping the public...