Ian Blair
Ian Blair
Ian Warwick Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, QPMis a retired British policeman who held the position of Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 2005 to 2008 and was the highest-ranking officer within the Metropolitan Police Service...
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The threat remains as clear and manifest as it has ever since last July.
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It does remain possible that those at large will strike again,
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It's mostly been a very friendly and generally good atmosphere,
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It does also remain possible that there are other cells who are capable and intent on striking again.
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it would be arrogant not to consider the issue of resignation in such circumstances but stressed he had no plans to resign.
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The second attacks on the 21st of July should not be taken as some indication that the weakening of the capability or resolve of those responsible,
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It has facilitators, so we're looking for the bomb makers, we're looking for the chemists, we're looking for the financiers, we're looking for the people who groomed these young people, so it will be a wide network that we're trying to penetrate.
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These allegations strike to the heart of the integrity of the police and integrity of the Met and I fundamentally reject them. There is no cover-up.
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It is a package that delivers safer neighbourhoods to everyone in London, that takes people out of their offices and puts them on the streets, that asks officers to walk as much as possible by themselves so they are accessible to the public, and it is part of the overall modernisation of the Metropolitan Police.
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We will be monitoring the development in Egypt very carefully, and if it's necessary we will send officers there, or we will seek extradition or whatever other processes are necessary.
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We made a small number of administrative changes,
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Where does resignation end? Of course, it might end fairly soon.
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We don't know if there is a fifth man, or a sixth man, a seventh man,
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If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.