Editor's weekend comment
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Following an investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) the two armed Metropolitan Police Officers who shot and killed Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes are likely, we understand, to be charged with murder.
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The Director of Public Prosecutions Ken MacDonald QC will make the decision early next month.
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Amazingly London's specialist armed Police are threatening to lay down their arms in protest. If they do so that would be an arrogant act of disregrard for the process of law, which as Police officers they are sworn to uphold.
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If there is evidence to charge individual officers with murder their co-workers can not expect to be the judge and jury. In this country there is a time honoured legal system which despite the arrogance, occasional corruptness, blatant disregard for the rules, and often amazing incompetence of the British Police, has served the people well.
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The logic of the Police federations position is that serious wrong doing must not be addressed.
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Sir Ian Blair seeks a debate on modern Policing. He will be best advised to commence that debate in his own (armed) ranks urgently.
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I am convinced that the regard the Police will be held in should, as the Daily Mail reports : ''Gun Police strike'', will sink to an irretrievable all time low and their once well-earned respect will turn to contempt.
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Officers of the Metropolitian Police service (especially its highly trained armed officers ) are not above the law, nor must they be treated any differently to other members of the public, we do not live in a Police state. A 'strike' by the afore-mentioned officers defies logic and sound judgement, which in view of the ferocity of the weapons they have at their disposal is deeply worrying.
PT
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Uniformed armed Police on duty in London.
Police Federation chiefs belive that the two non-uniformed officers who fired on the 27-year old electrician were merely ''following instructions from above'' and should not be charged.
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There is now no dispute over the fact that Jean Charles de Menezes was not challanged by the specialist armed poice that followed him. Neither did he in any way run from the police officer nor did he 'jump the ticket barrier' nor was he wearing a thick coat on a warm day, as the Police statements following his killing stated.
Quite correctly the actions of the head of London's Police the arrogant Sir Ian Blair, in the days following the death are being investigated by The Independent Police Complaints Commision.
The result of the IPPC investigation will be published early in January. If the British public allow a reduction in the standards of our public and civil servants, politicians and police and media as a result of gorrilla warfair in the UK; then the terrorists have won.
PT
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