Sir Ian Blair (UK Met) defended the Metropolitan Police from attacks of them being "Trigger Happy" with statistical data, SO19 officers opened fire once in every 2,000 incidents that they attended.
This comes as a backlash from the killing of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes as he run towards the Tube from the outside as the police where hunting for terrorists on the underground, he was shot repeatedly.
Sir Ian Blair said these actions did not permit the widening of the powers because the criminal law had always allowed reasonable force to be used and that had not changed, but did recognize that public debate on the issue of lethal force is needed.
