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A senior police officer has admitted that he tampered with his notes about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian man shot seven times in the head by the police at Stockwell tube station in July 2005.

The Metropolitan Police Service has been plunged into crisis after Sir Ian Blair, the Met’s commissioner and Britain’s most senior police officer, was forced to resign by London mayor Boris Johnson.

Ian Blair the chief of the Metropolitan Police force has resigned – and London is a slightly safer place because of it.

Investigations are underway into two recent incidents of black men in south London dying after either being chased or arrested by police.

Shocking news was released last week that Assistant Commissioner Tariq Ghaffur, Britain’s most senior ranking black police officer, was preparing papers alleging race discrimination against the Metropolitan Police and its commissioner Sir Ian Blair.

The steady erosion of democracy in Britain has been exposed by the way police handled last Sunday’s demonstration against George Bush.

Lee Donovan was arrested in Newport, South Wales, at around 10pm on Friday 25 April. He was taken to a police cell in nearby Pontypool at 10.45pm. By 1am the next morning he was dead.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was thrown into crisis this week after over 100 lawyers in the Police Action Lawyers Group resigned from its advisory body.

Some 15,000 police officers were expected to march through London on Wednesday of this week against plans to cap their pay rise at 1.9 percent this year.

In September the Home Office gave permission for a year long trial of taser electric shock weapons to non firearm trained police officers.

Who'd have thought the day would come when the police spoke with affection about the IRA?