Apparently the Met firearms officers are threatening to resign from their firearms duties, given they feel that the officer involved in this case has been thrown under the bus.Busy initiation for the new met chief.
Funerals etc.
Priti then Suella, dangerous times
There's also a danger they won't be alble to recruit new firearms officers.Apparently the Met firearms officers are threatening to resign from their firearms duties, given they feel that the officer involved in this case has been thrown under the bus.
You made some good points in your post but on this you are 100% wrong and it is because the police lied to control the narrative.Even with Jean Charles de Menezes, the most egregious example of a police shooting in the UK that I can think of. When you put that in context and read about how that situation panned out - failed Tube bombing the day before, armed police on maximum high alert on public transport, mistaken identification of a guy with backpack as one of the suspects, runs from police and jumps ticket gate running towards packed train - you start to understand how the calculations they made were actually reasonable. Incredibly tragic in this case, because he truly was innocent of everything, but reasonable.
Its not the first time that the IOPC has opened a homicide investigation after a fatal shooting, but in every case its been proved to be ill conceived.
This decision is entirely motivated by their fear of public criticism and entirely predictable by the IOPC, an organisation that is wholly unfit for purpose.
I feel for the family of Chris Kaba, but a witch hunt won't bring him back.
Is it right that a police officer is automatically suspended after shooting someone pending an investigation? If so that's bonkers.Apparently the Met firearms officers are threatening to resign from their firearms duties, given they feel that the officer involved in this case has been thrown under the bus.
This one was suspended after a week after pressure by the dead man’s family.Is it right that a police officer is automatically suspended after shooting someone pending an investigation? If so that's bonkers.
You mean in addition to the ones we already have in Leeds, Manchester, liverpool and London?There's also a danger they won't be alble to recruit new firearms officers.
The only way to eliminate shootings is to disarm the police and revert to using the Dixon of Dock Green approach.
'Don't be fool, son. Put the gun down'.
More realistically, you will have no-go areas in UK cities, and all that entails.
This one was suspended after a week after pressure by the dead man’s family.
I can’t remember the story with the Brazilian chap, it was the intell rather than the officers I think. He lived near someone connected with a big story at the time
See new user name's post aboveI remember reading the Brazilian fella ran after the police asked him to stay where he was.
You probably did.I remember reading the Brazilian fella ran after the police asked him to stay where he was.
What charges do you think they should have faced?In the above case none of the undercover officers or three firearms officers which shot de Menezes faced any charges, and it wasn't that their behaviour was without fault.
It's not no, but legally there has to be an investigation, as in all cases where 'the state' has taken a life.Is it right that a police officer is automatically suspended after shooting someone pending an investigation? If so that's bonkers.
17 years ago.From Wikipedia:
"7 January 1978 – 22 July 2005) was a Brazilian man killed by officers of the LondonMetropolitan Police Service at Stockwell station on the London Underground, after he was wrongly deemed to be one of the fugitives involved in the previous day's failed bombing attempts.[1] These events took place two weeks after the London bombings of 7 July 2005, in which 52 people were killed."
The Menezes shooting came up in the thread. Keep your hair on you numpty17 years ago.
Not in a car being chased
Not suspected of firearms offences.
Just after a major terrorist event.
Really really relevant.
Let’s be honest we already do have.More realistically, you will have no-go areas in UK cities, and all that entails.