Who is accountable? Armed police officers, ‘Kratos’, and the use of fatal force

16th November 2016Prof. Maurice Punch, Senior Fellow, LSE 1 Comment

High profile shootings like that of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Station in 2005 exposed weaknesses in the accountability mechanism around the police use of fatal force. Maurice Punch, Ralph Crawshaw and Geoffrey Markham, QPM argue that the issue has largely been dealt with through fudge, fiction and a refusal to acknowledge changing realities - leaving individual firearms officers to carry the can.

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Who is accountable? Armed police officers, ‘Kratos’, and the use of fatal force

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