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ZIMBABWE’S police chiefs never have never missed a chance to pat themselves on the back for the alleged professionalism of the country's law enforcers both at home and when they are invited to participate in international peacekeeping missions.


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Embattled Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair is under renewed pressure after a man shot during an anti-terrorism raid claimed he was threatened and verbally abused by armed police.

Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 24, who was shot in the shoulder by police during the raid at his family home in Forest Gate, east London, last year, said officers pulled him and his brother from the motorbike they were riding during an incident on August 24.

Mr Kahar said armed police shouted: "Shoot him, shoot him" at him and his brother, 21-year-old Abul Koyair.

The brothers claimed they were stopped outside a pizza takeaway near their home, handcuffed and verbally abused before being released without charge.

Their solicitor, Gareth Peirce, said the family had no faith in the police complaints system, describing it as "unworkable, ponderable and slow", and instead wrote to Sir Ian Blair asking him to investigate the incident personally.

She said: "It's terrible that this is happening again. This family has a right to go about their law-abiding business. We absolutely refused to go through the complaints procedure - it doesn't work.

"We asked Blair to deal with it himself in a responsible way. Instead, all that happened was that another officer wrote back saying it would be treated as a formal complaint. It's like banging your head against a brick wall."

The commissioner has defied calls to quit after his force was found guilty of serious failures leading to the death of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes.

Ms Peirce said the brothers were prompted to go public with their complaint in the wake of the Old Bailey trial.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "Legal representatives of the individuals involved made it clear they did not want the matter investigated as a complaint and therefore no investigation took place. The IPCC were kept informed of the situation throughout."

 

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