We have to concentrate on how we find the people who are helping or thinking about planning further atrocities.

What I actually said was we have a unique situation here. At that stage I, and my officers, thought the dead man was a suicide bomber. We are in the middle of the biggest counterterrorism operation — is it wise to bring another set of investigators into the middle of that?

We do devote the same level of resources to murders in relation to their difficulty. What the difference is, is how these are reported. I actually believe the media is guilty of institutional racism in the way they report deaths.

The Met proudly borrows, if not steals, with absolute abandon from across the world. We are policing what people want us to police because it's the things people can see in front of them.

The number of people from different continents who are going to arrive in the Caribbean in 2007 produces a challenge for law enforcement and community safety. We want to do our best to help and learn from that process so that when we reach to that stage in 2012, we will have an understanding of that.

People need to think that young men died in estates in North London so that someone else can have a wrap of cocaine.

The context here is the largest criminal inquiry in English history with 52 innocent victims dead. ... We can't let that one tragic death outweigh all others.

At that time - and for the next 24 hours - I and everybody who advised me believed the person who was shot was a suicide bomber.

On Monday, if this (bill) is not passed, these men will be released. I think that would be a grave threat to national security.