Kind of a Brit tradition isn't it. Work for Bond and Austin Powers.
Yeah, it seems to have worked for professional spies, but not so much for Members of Parliment.
Quite frankly I'm surprised to see this coming to light via protests by the women duped, as opposed to being revealed through claims for worker's comp by coppers who have caught some nasty social disease (you know, the stuff that used to be called sexually transmitted diseases).
Anf how can all those secret units expect to remain secret if the coppers assigned to them keep popping off to the press that they exist? Seems to defeat the purpose of being a secret unit, no? But then if I had a job where I was getting paid to have sex with lots of different women (regardless of any skank factor) I'd probably be wanting to brag about it, too. Seems like most men are hard-wired to do that.
stay safe.