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| Police marksman arrested after shooting suspect dead in Wood Green | Police marksman arrested after shooting suspect dead in Wood Green |
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| A police marksman has been arrested after shooting dead a suspect in north London. | A police marksman has been arrested after shooting dead a suspect in north London. |
| The commissioner of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), Cindy Butts, said the officer who shot dead Jermaine Baker on 11 December in Wood Green was arrested and interviewed under criminal caution on Thursday afternoon. | |
| She delivered the news at a community meeting in Tottenham, north London, the IPCC said. | She delivered the news at a community meeting in Tottenham, north London, the IPCC said. |
| Butts stressed the arrest did not mean the officer would be charged. | |
| She said the IPCC had found a black Audi at the scene, in which there was a “non-police issue firearm”. Baker appeared to have been shot while in the vehicle, she said. Butts was unable to say exactly where either the firearm or Baker were in the vehicle. “These questions are the focus of our investigation,” she told the meeting. | |
| She added that further forensic examinations would take place on the firearm found in the car and that the one that was fired by the officer, killing Baker. | |
| Scotland Yard said that the officer was suspended from duty on Wednesday. | |
| In a statement released in reaction to the news of the officer’s arrest, Met police deputy assistant commissioner, Peter Terry, said: “As police officers, we are all fully aware that we will be asked to account for our actions. We are not exempt from the law and would not wish to be. | |
| “In these difficult circumstances we continue to offer every possible support to the officer, and their family, and to the officer’s colleagues. | “In these difficult circumstances we continue to offer every possible support to the officer, and their family, and to the officer’s colleagues. |
| “All of the officers who took part in the operation on Friday 11 December, were doing a job, one that we as senior officers in the MPS asked of them.” | “All of the officers who took part in the operation on Friday 11 December, were doing a job, one that we as senior officers in the MPS asked of them.” |
| Terry said that his thoughts – and those of his colleagues – were with Baker’s family. | |
| He stressed that his officers had a difficult job to do. “Every day in London, our armed officers willingly respond to dangerous situations, as we call upon them to deal with some of the most high risk situations there are in policing. | |
| “This requires those armed officers having the confidence to make the most difficult of decisions, often in split seconds. | |
| “Now, more than ever before, our armed officers provide an invaluable service in keeping Londoners and their own unarmed colleagues safe. We rely upon on them to provide this, quite frankly unique, policing role. | |
| “We will continue to give our armed officers support and reassurance to ensure they have the confidence to keep fulfilling this crucial role.” |