The mayor of London should really keep his mouth shut on this as it is now sub judice.
Khan has frequent form for being far too quick to comment on matter like this (even when they don't relate to London in some case)
Unfortunately the Tories are no better. This for example is an entirely inappropriate message for any MP, let alone one in her position to send out at this stage in proceedings...
Juat release the cam footage..the same one that caused the entire family to say nothing after they has seen it.
This is certainly a very strange case... the family were full of demands for justice until they were invites in to watch the footage by the police and then suddenly they announced they were 'stepping back' which sounds a lot like what they saw didn't justify their previous outrage.
The CPS better have a very robust case in this matter...
Did I accidentally end up in a Xitter thread
Unarmed man killed by a police officer, well he was probably guilty and deserved it
Millionaire child shagger and sex pest, we don't know all the facts let the legal process play out
Uniformed poster struggles to differentiate between the legal burden of criminal proof and the very different and long standing (common law) right to defence of oneself and right to defend others from immediate danger.
So why doesn't this count as a wildcat strike (which is illegal) by the police?
Because the officers aren't striking obviously...
Met police need abolished and new local police forces set up in London.
Stupid idea. No one can sensibly explain how this would improve things and what would change beyond costs going up and there being even more issues with 'cross border' crime and criminals!
We realised at least as far back as the 1990's that policing isn't just for the police do to.... for example local authorities have a role to play in crime reduction and detection. Even builiding planning needs to consider the effects decisions will have on crime. Thr police therefore need to be able to, effectively, work with partners in local government.
Therefore it makes sense to have London police force for London as London is its own regional area with its own local governorship.
Yea and people still maintain the storming of the Capitol was peaceful.
It was at least much more peaceful than the infamous 'mostly peaceful' event in that CNN report.
A lot of people (me included) just know how ridiculous it would be to claim that an event were almost all the participants failed to bring guns in the US and the only person shot was one of the belligerent group was an 'insurrection'.
IMO every police shooting should be investigated like this - the officer should be presumed innocent, but each case should be put in front of a jury
This already tends to happen anyway... it's called coroners court....
Putting all police officers who use fatal force in a criminal court is obviously a stupid idea.
Coordinated withdrawal of labour seems pretty strikey to me. You don't have to down tools altogether for it to be a strike, and there are laws about doing that without a ballot.
Hence my wildcat strike point
For the millionth time we don't have an 'armed police force' like most other countries do. We have an unarmed one with a small cadre of tenants officers who volunteer to carry firearms. They are subject to very frequent training and can very easily have their stays revoked. They can also walk into work and say they are reminding their voluntary status and be re assigned to some other police work.
what is the salary premium for being a fire-arms officer, or other specializations.
Zero. Police officers of the same rank and on the same 'band' (based on length of service although PC's can now be 'held back' if they aren't performing) have the same base salary and hourly rate for any overtime worked.
The Met and some surrounding forces also pay all of their officers a regional allowance for the cost of living. Butbthis would be the same for an AFO/SFO and a neighbourhood PC/ response PC/ Detective etc.
(Edit to add: For a normal PC on a police firearms unit, none. For firearms officers as members of the Diplomatic protection corp, for example, they get paid more)
This isn't true. They still get paid the same amount but often earn silly money as they work load of hours on overtime and can claim expenses for things like food purchased, travel and accommodation because they are all over the place, often at short notice.
So armed police are allowed to forsake their duties when 'one of their own' may or may not have have killed someone for no reason?
Again carrying a gun, in the UK, is not a 'duty' (as in something an officer can be required to do)
I mean the officer in question is out on bail and gets to be anonymous, at least wait until a verdict before deciding you're above scrutiny.
Sounds like another one of those dodgy met units.
This issue has some similarity with police 'response/ pursuit driving' (which is also something police volunteer to do and which they can all refuse to do if they want).
The issue with the driving is that police don't actually have any consideration in the law for the manner in which they are requested to drive. And that manner would tick all the boxes for 'dangerous driving' putting officers in a parlous situation for a job that they are asked to perform. In the same way Soldiers and armed police officers are different from other people. The state has given then a lethal weapon and asked that they be ready to use it, if neccesary, to achieve an aim of the state.
The nature of that weapon is such that Almost any intentional discharge of it would satisfy the mens rea aspects for a murder charge.
There should perhaps be a consideration as to whether some additional law is needed to reflect thr unique position of emergency service 'response/ pursuit' drivers and armed officers.