The Metropolitan Police has, for now, staved off a crisis. The force says that enough armed officers have returned to work that they don’t need to draft in the army. Officers walked out following the decision by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to charge a serving officer with the murder of Chris Kaba, a black Londoner who was shot and fatally injured during a planned police operation in September 2023. But while Londoners won’t be seeing soldiers on the streets today, this row is far from over.
It’s been a over a year since Kaba, a 24-year-old, was hit and killed by a gunshot fired by an officer into a vehicle in Streatham, south London. That incident on 5 September 2022 lasted just a few minutes. During the twelve months since, the circumstances of what unfolded that night have been investigated by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) who referred their evidence to the CPS in March.
Mr Kaba’s family deserve justice.
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