ColcamCressida Dick, "gold command" of the operation that led to the death of Jean Charles de Menezes in the bungled Stockwell tube shooting incident shortly after the July bombings in London, says she never gave the seven letter code word telling police they should kill.
Times online
Commander Cressida Dick, 44, the Oxford graduate who was “gold command” of the operation,Oxford University or Oxford Brookes?
Police have admitted that there were difficulties keeping in contact with the police teams once they went underground at the station'hang on aminute chief, I've got bad reception...what's that?Shoot?'
How bloody convenient.
Investigators from the Independent Police Complaints Commission have been unable to use the radio transmissions to the marksmen to discover exactly what was said because they were not recorded, unlike 999 calls, which are kept.
Ten officers including Ms Dick have been served with police regulation warnings that they may face disciplinary action.
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