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IT IS a depressing feature of modern political life that when a senior member of the Cabinet rushes to assure a public figure in difficulty that he enjoys the full support of the government, that difficulty is then compounded. There is little doubt about the gravity of the difficulty that Sir Ian Blair, the head of the Metropolitan Police, is already in. And with new developments breaking by the day, this difficulty has grown.
There are now three broad areas of public concern. The first is the precise status of the "shoot to kill" policy, or as the police prefer to call it, "the shoot to kill in order to protect" policy. Is it still in force? What are the rules surrounding it? And who has the final word?See the full content of this document
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Leader: Questionable Policing Policy
The second is the credibility of the police at the highest level. We now know that it was not until some 24 hours after the fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Underground Station that Sir Ian Blair was told that M...
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