It's not the police that are out of Control it is our Political Masters, the Police just do what they are told in matters like this. Now it was claimed that National Security was at risk, well the only thing at at risk was a couple of incompetent minister of the state. Now Gordon Brown has often said that he had a Mole in the Bank of England when the Conservative party was in power and he got leaked information and used it in Parliament and the press, and same goes for a number of other senior Labour politicians. Now what action will be taken against them, well nothing and when Labour loses the next election I wonder what they will say if the police start raiding there offices and houses every time they release a bit of sensitive bit of information.
Sorry mate I dont agree, the police are out of control.
If the police did not have a search warrant to search the MP's home, they carried out the search illegally, the cops broke the law!
Then we come to De Menezes who was shot and killed by armed police. He wasn't simply shot, he was executed.
The jury at the Inquest were told by the coroner that they could not bring a verdict of unlawful killing. Whats the point of having a jury if the Coroner can dictate the verdict?
During the Inquest, a police officer, who was only identified as James, admitted that obvious "failings" led to De Menezes's shooting, and added that he could have been stopped safely before he was killed.
The Telegraph covers this story quite well.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1564851/'Shocking-errors-led-to-De-Menezes-death'.html
The decision not to prosecute any police officer for the shooting of Harry Stanley fits an alarming pattern for such cases.
Harry Stanley was born in Bellshill, near Glasgow, Scotland, where he lived for the first 19 years of his life. In the early 1970s Stanley moved to London in search of work and he married his childhood sweetheart, Irene. He had 3 children, and grandchildren, and lived in Hackney, East London. The 46-year-old painter and decorator had only recently been released from hospital after an operation for colon cancer at the time of his death.
On the 22 September1999 he was returning home from the Alexandra Pub in South Hackney carrying, in a plastic bag, a table leg that had been repaired by his brother earlier that day. Someone had phoned the police to report "an Irishman with a gun wrapped in a bag".
Close to his home, Inspector Neil Sharman and PC Kevin Fagan, the crew of a Metropolitan policeArmed Response Vehicle challenged Mr. Stanley from behind. As he turned to face them, they shot him dead at a distance of 15 feet.
WHY? The man was no threat, they had him covered if he attempted to grab a weapon
Of 30 fatalities involving police shootings in the past 12 years no officer has been convicted of murder or manslaughter.
Daniel Machover, the solicitor representing the Stanley family, said there was a real concern that the Crown Prosecution Service had set the evidential bar too high when it came to considering charges against police officers. He said police need only raise a prima facie defence of self- defence to block prospects of a successful prosecution. Lawyers are also concerned that the prosecutors and the Independent Police Complaints Commission, which initially investigates these cases, have become unduly influenced by American experts in the field of ballistic biomechanics, the study of human reaction times and body movement in relation to firearms incidents.
Remember when police armed with revolvers searched the house of a known criminal. While searching under a childs bed a round went off killing the child. The cop should have been charged with manslaughter at least for a number of reasons
(1)Why was his revolver cocked?
(2)Why was his finger on the trigger instead of alongside the trigger guard?
This also raises more questions, why arent British Police trained to fire revolvers double action instead of the highly dangerous practice of single action. This leads to even more questions regaring Police Training.
I have witnessed British Police using firearms on military ranges, quite frankly I was horrified. I have never seen such inpet and bad handling in my life.
I do however fully agree with you regarding inept and corrupt government ministers.