Health and Safety 13 – operation had “no structure”
The jury also heard evidence of a police log of events on the day when the innocent Brazilian was shot dead on a Tube train on 22 July 2005.
The log recorded criticisms of the operation by Commander Cressida Dick, the operations room commander at Scotland Yard on the day.
She was recorded saying that the first hour of the operation had “no structure”.
The case was adjourned until Friday.
Wasn’t Cressida Dick in charge of the operation?
In an older article,
the Met’s defence said prosecutors were describing events in “near ignorance” of how police operate.
Indeed, I think we all assumed that an operations room wouldn’t be filled with non-essential staff, that they would be able to hear each other and the radio, that the commander of the operation would have ensured it had structure if there wasn’t one to begin with, and that they wouldn’t kill anyone unless they were certain he was a lethal threat, etc.
How ignorant we were.
cradle to grave surveillance
The UK Identity & Passport Service (IPS) has staged an identity landgrab on birth, marriage and death records. From April 2008 the General Register Office, which is responsible for recording these matters and is currently a directorate of the Office of National Statistics, is to become part of IPS, meaning that IPS will be logging you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die.
The logic of the move is chilling. The UK ID card scheme itself only requires registration for an ID card from age 16, while the passport part of the deal only, obviously, needs to have data on people who have passports. But… IPS has entirely and obviously unfeasible plans to make money by promoting itself to the status of the UK’s de facto identity services broker, with passport validation and identity verification services being early manifestations of how it proposes to make money out of this. But if IPS is to be able to grow its offerings from simply checking if a passport is genuine into a general ID verification service, then it makes sense to have everybody in the database, whether they like it or not.
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear? Check my page on data abuse.
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