How did a handcuffed prisoner shoot dead a Met Police officer?
BBC News home affairs correspondent
Each of the six chambers of the revolver had a bullet in. He was carrying seven more bullets in a black pouch in his breast pocket.A police image showing how the revolver was being carried by Louis De Zoysa The two officers checked De Zoysa's bag, his waistband and frisked his legs, but somehow they missed the gun in the holster under his arm. They did not have a metal detector with them in the police car.
His brother, James Young, remembers their mother encouraging them to watch British TV shows like the 1970s crime series The Professionals, and sporting events like the FA Cup final. "What they've told us," he said, "is they've changed the procedures and all these sorts of things; they've got metal detectors when you walk in through now. I'm like, well, they've got those in the police stations here. They've had them for years.
IOPC director of operations Amanda Rowe said: "Although the officers searching De Zoysa did not strictly follow [Met Police Service] training - which requires that the torso is divided into quarters, and each quarter is searched from the top down, both back and front - we concluded that neither their actions nor omissions breached the police standards of professional behaviour.
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