UK cop excused from guarding London's Israeli Embassy on 'moral grounds'

[I'm Gone 60]

This is a little different from not stopping a crime because you object to the person being robbed or assaulted. Now bottom line it's the guy's job and he should follow orders, but the higher ups could take his position into consideration and give him another assignment if someone agreed to switch with him.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

It seems this guy was given leave from his job for his own protection since he was lebanese

[Lansbury 19]

I watched an interview on TV today about this matter. The ex-commander of the Flying Squad (of which the diplomatic protection squad are part of) was being interviewed. Apparently an officer applies to be part of the Flying Squad, knowing FULL WELL what the job entails and knowing WHO he might have to protect.

The Flying Squad does not exist anymore and hasn't for several years. Diplomatic Protection Group was never part of the Flying Squad at any time. It was originally a unit on its own and subsequently a few months back amalgamated with the Royalty Protection Unit, and Special Branch A Squad (who protect the Prime Minster and others who need a personal protection officer, I can't recall what the new unit is called.

It is all part of a major shake up of Met Police Specialist Operations of which the Flying Squad was SO8 and when it was disbanded it became part of I think SCD7 (Serious Crime Directorate).

[Mags 112]

I watched an interview on TV today about this matter. The ex-commander of the Flying Squad (of which the diplomatic protection squad are part of) was being interviewed. Apparently an officer applies to be part of the Flying Squad, knowing FULL WELL what the job entails and knowing WHO he might have to protect.

The Flying Squad does not exist anymore and hasn't for several years. Diplomatic Protection Group was never part of the Flying Squad at any time. It was originally a unit on its own and subsequently a few months back amalgamated with the Royalty Protection Unit, and Special Branch A Squad (who protect the Prime Minster and others who need a personal protection officer, I can't recall what the new unit is called.

It is all part of a major shake up of Met Police Specialist Operations of which the Flying Squad was SO8 and when it was disbanded it became part of I think SCD7 (Serious Crime Directorate).

As I mentioned, the bloke who was being interviewed was the OLD commander-in-chief. How the police force dynamics have changed isn't known to me; I was simply just quoting what he was saying. He said they were intertwined and so I quoted him.

Regardless on who goes what with who and where, the same principles apply. The officer would have had to apply to that squad and would have known what his duties could entail. If he knew there was a risk he would end up protecting that embassy, and it conflicted with his views, he shouldn't have applied.

Aren't all these police units totally confusing?

Edited October 6, 2006 by mags

[Lansbury 19]

Regardless on who goes what with who and where, the same principles apply. The officer would have had to apply to that squad and would have known what his duties could entail. If he knew there was a risk he would end up protecting that embassy, and it conflicted with his views, he shouldn't have applied.

He knew what he was expected to do when he applied for D.P.G. I think it is totally insane that he gets to pick and choose. Wonder what would happen if I decided I wasn't going to do anything that could be against the interest of the USA as half my family live there and I am heading that way. No I don't wonder I know, feet wouldn't touch, then I'm white.

You accept the wages you do the job.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

This is a little different from not stopping a crime because you object to the person being robbed or assaulted. Now bottom line it's the guy's job and he should follow orders, but the higher ups could take his position into consideration and give him another assignment if someone agreed to switch with him.

An analogy to this is a man who wants to work as a locomotive mechanic, but says he needs alternative (to hard-hat) headgear due to religion (not figurative--a real case like this in Canada in 1980's, where the plaintiff was Sikh wanting to use turban and defendant was CN rail).

If the cop in question wants higher-ups to take his position into consideration, then HE should think twice before applying for the job in the first place.

(in the case of Bhinder vs CN Rail, court decided in Bhinder's favour--meaning they bought Trudeau's divide-and-continue-misruling "multiculturalism" policy hook-line-and-stinker :angry: )

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A Muslim police officer who asked to be excused from guarding the Israeli embassy was married by the radical cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, The Daily Telegraph has learned.

Pc Alexander Omar-Basha's father-in-law is related to Bakri, who performed an Islamic ceremony at the family home in north London.

The cleric, who founded the now disbanded Al-Muhajiroun group of radical Muslims, is living in Lebanon after being barred from the UK.

Bakri caused consternation when he said he would never warn the police if he learned of an impending suicide bomber attack by fellow Muslims. He also called the July 7 London suicide bombers "the fantastic four".

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Bakri said yesterday he was not aware that Pc Omar-Basha was a policeman until he was involved in the arrest of some of his followers in Wood Green, north London.

Bakri said he had told Pc Omar-Basha to leave the police. Speaking from the Lebanon, Bakri said: "After a while I learned he was in the police force because brothers were arrested in Wood Green for distributing leaflets outside the library which, they said, offended homosexuals.

"I was told he was involved in stopping the stall."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml...10/06/npc06.xml

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