Another great day for the Met (part 1)

Asian police officers "and in particular Pakistani Muslim officers" need special anti-corruption training, according to an internal police report. The report was commissioned to "investigate why complaints of misconduct and corruption against Asian officers are 10 times higher than against their white colleagues", but has now been leaked to the press.

That's going to make Asian officers feel so much more welcome, isn't it? It also seems to skip one very important point - complaints of misconduct are very high, but the report remains silent on whether or not they're found to be justified.

Are confirmed corruption/misconduct reports also uncomfortably high, or are the majority of these just wild claims, targeting officers who look/sound a bit different from the norm?

Another great day for the Met (part 2)

Questions are being asked about the way police and intelligence services handled an anti-terror raid in east London after the release of two men

"Two brothers Abul Koyair, 20, and Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23 who was shot in the raid, were freed without charge on Friday evening"

After the raid, the papers talked about a cyanide bomb. There were initially press reports that one brother had shot the other (whereas it now appears that he'd headed downstairs to see who was breaking into his house, not realising that it was the police - who then shot him, in circumstances that'll undoubtedly be investigated).

Oh, and government officials said both suspects had "extensive criminal records" - although Julian Young, Mr Koyair's solicitor, has stated that his client has no such record - and the government officials stopped making any such claims a couple of days back...

Let's not forget that they also detained the neighbours - and if the quote about a police officer striking one of them across the head with a gun butt is true, that was also a complete mess.

And let's also remember this particular quote:

One senior security source said: "We are absolutely certain this device exists and could be used either by a suicide bomber or in a remote-controlled explosion."