Scotland Yard is investigating a claim a now-disbanded undercover police unit created aliases using the identities of dead children.
The Guardian newspaper reported that the Special Demonstration Squad stole the identities of about 80 children who had died at an early age.
It is believed the claims relate mainly to operations in the 1980s.
The Met said the alleged practice was not something that would be currently authorised by Scotland Yard.
According to the Guardian report, deceased children's identities were used by the undercover officers because they would stand up to scrutiny if birth records were checked.
The practice was authorised by the force and carried out without consultation with the parents of the children, the report suggested.
Two former officers of the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) are quoted as saying they were issued with identity records, like driving licences and national insurance documents, in the children's names.
A document seen by the newspaper reportedly indicated that such identities had been used by officers between 1968 and 1994.
The SDS was a unit whose officers were involved in infiltrating protest groups. It was disbanded in 2008, according to the Guardian.
A Met statement said: "A formal complaint has been received which is being investigated by the DPS (Directorate of Professional Standards) and we appreciate the concerns that have been raised."
'Completely inappropriate'The allegations come a couple of years after an undercover officer was revealed as having infiltrated environmental protests groups where he had relationships with two women.
End Quote Lord Macdonald Former director of public prosecutionsThese are all examples of areas in which the police have completely lost their moral compass"
Lord Macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, said a public inquiry was needed into the wider issues of undercover policing.
He said it was "completely inappropriate" for officers to use a dead child's identity, or form sexual relationships with people they were gathering information on.
"How are you supposed to maintain a level of fair and objective evidence-gathering if you are having sex with the person you are targeting, fathering a baby and then abandoning it, using a dead child's identity?" he asked.
"These are all examples of areas in which the police have completely lost their moral compass and have completely failed to understand the boundaries."
He added: "What we really need is a public inquiry into undercover policing which takes evidence, takes advice, sets out some guidelines, sets out some mechanisms so we can be confident these sorts of procedures are not being followed today."
A former undercover police officer, Peter Bleksley, said he would never have considered using a child's identity, opting instead to create a new identity.
He was a member of a specialist undercover team in the 1980s, which investigated serious and organised crimes.
"The state gave us the facilities we required - passports, driving licences, we had relationships with companies who would provide us with credit cards, we could also create our own criminal history if we wanted to. At no time did we ever countenance or even dream of using a dead child's identity."
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