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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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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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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The threat remains as clear and manifest as it has ever since last July.
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I am really sending out the same message to the terrorists as I have been all along which is that London will endure and prevail.
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At the moment we have nothing that links the two groups, but the investigation still continues and there is an intuitive view that says that each group of four are so similar that we must have concerns, and we do.
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I can remember being asked a question about a previous individual who was given a caution. I think that was a wrong decision.
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We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior, and if there is evidence, something should be done about it.
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We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior on impressionable young people and if there is evidence, something should be done about it,