This is an excerpt from the Bob Lambert profile and related articles at the former Undercover Research Group wiki, last updated in 2018.
Lambert gave evidence to the Inquiry in 2024, as did 'Jacqui' and Belinda Harvey who were deceived into sexual relationships with him. An updated version of the profile will appear here after the Inquiry publishes the remainder of evidence relating to him.
Robert Lambert, commonly known as Bob Lambert and sometimes styled Dr Robert Lambert MBE, born in 1952, is a former Metropolitan Police officer turned academic.
A long-serving officer with the Metropolitan Police Special Branch, Lambert was a key member the Special Demonstration Squad. He served both as an undercover officer - using the false identity ‘Bob Robinson’ to infiltrate the environmental and animal rights protest movement in the 1980s - and then later as an influential manager of the unit in the 1990s.
He subsequently set up the Muslim Contact Unit within Special Branch, which worked with British Islamists purportedly to temper radicalisation, before retiring from the police in 2007. He then began a successful second career as an academic, building on his work at MCU.
In October 2011, he was publicly exposed as having been a police spy by some of the London Greenpeace activists upon whom he had spied.