Bad Timing Or What

[retrocop]

Just as Police firearms officers pick up their blue cards the Police are sacking one who was exonerated of no wrong doing eight years ago

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/marksman-shot-dead-jailbreak-gangster-193505630.html

[Bobbisox1]

Law and order has just about broken down now Retro 

 

[Gromit]

// A public inquiry later concluded that Baker had been lawfully killed, despite identifying a string of police mistakes in the planning of the operation. //

But the IOPC recommended that W80 face a gross misconduct hearing because disciplinary offences are based on the civil test that states an honest but mistaken belief must also be “reasonable”.

The Metropolitan Police disagreed with the decision and took the case to the Supreme Court to try to have it overturned.

It argued that the criminal threshold ought to be applied in both cases. However, in July the Supreme Court rejected the appeal and sided with the IOPC. //

Nowt to do with bad timing. There was a disagreement about prosecuting him, which has now been resolved by the Supreme Court.

[Ken4155]

Is his sacking a foregone conclusion, Retro? From your link, when he was cleared of any legal wrongdoing, the IOPC ordered he be faced with a gross misconduct hearing which "could result in him being sacked."

[douglas9401]

One must bear in mind that the OP is coloured by previous employment and that famous police trait of even handedness in all matters legal. 🙄

[Gromit]

Apprehending an armed suspect is dangerous for the police, the public and the man targetted. The successful conclusion must always be that no one is killed.

When there is a fatality then the mission has been a failure. The police are asking for the benefit of doubt that they were correct to kill. That is wrong. We should be eliminating all doubt.

No one wants police officers prosecuted, and no one wants an unarmed man killed.

The same mistake and the same result keep occurring. The guidelines need to be more tightly defined and better training needs to reflect that.

 

[bednobs]

isnt "exonerated of no wrong doing" wrong doing?

[youngmafbog]

Terrible timing Retro.

Of course the armchair experts on here wont see it.

 

[bednobs]

"Of course the armchair experts on here wont see it"

say armchair expert

[youngmafbog]

//say armchair expert//

You know nothing about me.

[douglas9401]

I suppose keeping body-worn video cameras turned on and not deleting footage could help in cases like this.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66809642

[Ken4155]

^

So that's why they call them 'coppers', Doug. That one certainly copped an handful with his left hand.

[bednobs]

well in all fairness, i know a little bit about you.  You are not an armed police officer.

[david small]

The police are a mess. Politicians have ruined a once respected service.

[Peter Pedant]

oops: 

faces being sacked despite being cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, 

criminal wrogdoing, and retro - looking back - haw haw haw, police discipline is not ONLY about being convicted, as with all boards of regulation ( Judges, lawyers, doctorss, teachers etc)

But you really always knew that .

And yes, in this day of videos, if there is no video, there is a reasonable chance that it will be accepted it never happened