The odd part is it seems like the guy enjoyed the work enough to maintain it even after he stopped being a police officer. From the article, it seems he actuall

The odd part is it seems like the guy enjoyed the work enough to maintain it even after he stopped being a police officer. From the article, it seems he actually went out of his way to resign the police force when they were going to move him into another position, and then found another company who would pay him to continue his undercover role. > His covert mission was terminated in October 2009 when he was summoned by his handlers to a meeting at an anonymous truckstop. > In January 2010, he mysteriously reappeared. What Lisa and the other campaigners did not know at that time was that Kennedy was quitting the police to avoid being assigned to a humdrum desk job. But he had not discarded his fictional persona of “Mark Stone”, and continued to be involved in political campaigns. He has admitted that he was employed by a clandestine private security firm that was paid by commercial firms to monitor protesters. Presumably this wasn't just due to his desire for the relationship itself, since he could have simply resigned the police force and continued the relationship without being an undercover operative.