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03 November 2007
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England: Conviction 'could und
Police operations against terrorists and serious criminals risk being undermined by the health and safety conviction of the Metropolitan force in the Jean Charles de Menezes case, senior police chiefs have warned.
Chief constables believe health and safety law should never have been used to judge a fast-moving hunt to find suspected suicide bombers.
Ken Jones, the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), one of the country's most senior officers, told The Daily Telegraph that he and other chiefs feared the case would have a "cultural impact" on the confidence of police commanders – particularly those involved in live "real time" operations.
"It won't happen immediately, it will happen insidiously over time," he warned.
"It will start to impact on the policies, procedures and behaviours."
Senior Scotland Yard anti-terrorist sources echoed his concerns, saying that officers would be deterred from volunteering to be trained for such operations if they feared their actions could result in criminal charges.
The core concern, Mr Jones said, was that live operations would become weighed down by the need to continually carry out risk assessments – in much the same way they now have to do for pre-planned operations.
Mr de Menezes died after being shot on a tube train at Stockwell station on July 22, 2005 by officers who believed he had been identified as Hussain Osman, one the four terrorists who tried to repeat the carnage of the July 7 bombings the previous day.
The operation to watch a block of flats where Osman and Mr de Menezes lived was one of a number mounted by Scotland Yard on July 22 to find the bombers.
Mr Jones said the de Menezes case was a unique set of circumstances but added: "There are frequently unpredictable and unknown elements in anti-terrorist and firearms operation. If they are bracketed together with pre-planned operations, it won't work.
"Police run counter-terrorist operations and thousands of firearms operations and we are good at assessing and mitigating risk when we can in advance. But it is difficult to deal with the unknowns in urgent, real-time cases.
"If these are going to have to be planned in the same way as pre-planned operations, then we are worried about risk aversion in commanders. We are worried about the cultural and operational impact on commanders' confidence.
"The service welcomes public scrutiny; we are not above the law. However during counter-terrorism operations, sadly we now know that situations will inevitably arise which have no precedent. Under such circumstances it will be extremely difficult for commanders to totally identify and create plans to mitigate risk."
He fears commanders might avoid taking decisions unless they were sure they had "assets in reserve" to deal with any contingencies.
"But when you are dealing with this type of terrorist threat (as in July 2005) and you are trying to track down suspects and locations you sometimes have to spread the jam fairly thinly.
"If you are dealing with intelligence and speculation and you have got five or six things to do you can't possibly mount an operation for each one to deal with every unknown."
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