Health & Safety

The successful HSE prosecution against the Metropolitan Police for the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes was better than nothing, I suppose. What has continually shocked me though, about all this, is the idea that an innocent man can be executed - lets make no bones about it - on the streets of Britain, by those ostensibly engaged in law-enforcement, and that there are no legal sanctions whatsoever. The Met is seemingly above the law and citizens are apparently incapable of redress. This conviction does not change that, and neither has it brought about a sense of personal responsibility that in this affair seems notably lacking in all ranks of the Met. The judgement found 'systematic failure' throughout the organisation. How on earth do they think that we can have confidence in them?