This is an excerpt from a profile last updated in 2018. The full profile can be found here: https://powerbase.info/index.php/Mike_Chitty HN15 did not cooperate with the Undercover Policing Inquiry. An updated profile will appear here.
HN11 Michael Chitty ('Mike Blake') was an undercover officer with the Special Demonstration Squad who infiltrated the animal rights movement in south London in the 1980s. Prior to that he had been with Special Branch in Bermuda. Almost all that is known of him is provided by chapter 6 of Undercover, the expose of undercover policing by two Guardian journalists, Rob Evans and Paul Lewis.
Chitty is notable for having 'gone native': after his deployment finished, he returned to the group he had targeted, the South London Animal Movement. He continued socialising with them while remaining a police officer - including attempting to restart one relationship with a woman he had been seeing while undercover. His behaviour lead to a long investigation of him by fellow Special Branch and SDS officer HN10 Bob Lambert, and his eventual departure from the police. He has subsequently moved to South Africa.