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?
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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?
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.
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.
This quote is just one of 9 total Sir Ian Blair quotes in our collection. Sir Ian Blair is known for saying '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?' as well as some of the following quotes.