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Scotland Yard should make a "high-profile" apology to two families caught up in an abortive anti-terrorism raid in east London last year, the police watchdog said yesterday.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission said they were "victims of failed intelligence" and had been put through a "terrifying experience".
Scotland Yard said it had apologised three times and it was time "to move on".
Having reviewed the intelligence about a chemical bomb, the IPCC said it did not criticise the Metropolitan Police for mounting the raid but it should have prepared better for the possibility that the intelligence might have been wrong. Nothing was found during the raids.
The IPCC investigated more than 150 allegations by the 11 adult occupants of the two houses, including assault and unlawful arrest and detention. A small number of complaints — said by the Met to be two involving treatment in custody — were upheld. An officer has received a written warning for one allegation of neglect.
The IPCC has already conducted an inquiry into the shooting of one of the two brothers arrested in the raid, Mohammed Abdul Kahar, who was hit in the shoulder. It was ruled an accident.
The IPCC concluded yesterday that officers in the raid in Lansdown Road, Forest Gate, on June 2 used "very aggressive tactics" that they believed were necessary given the danger from the bomb they believed they faced. Three allegations of assault — on each of the two brothers and a neighbour — were investigated but the Crown Prosecution Service found insufficient evidence to justify charges.
Only the brothers were arrested, yet all were taken to a police station. The IPCC said this was both "inappropriate and insensitive". The report also criticised the detention of one of the arrested brothers, Abul Koyair, who was held by police for several days. Neither was charged.
The incident soured relations between the Metropolitan Police and sections of the Muslim community in London.
Deborah Glass, an IPCC commissioner, said: "The level of force has to be judged in the light of the officers' beliefs that they were facing an extreme threat not just to themselves but to the public.
"But where as a result of a high-profile operation innocent people are injured or branded as terrorists, the police should make an equally high-profile public apology."
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Alf Hitchcock, of the Metropolitan Police, said: "We have apologised on three previous occasions and I reiterate that today. I think we need to move on from apologising over and over again."
The families described the IPCC report as a "whitewash". Mr Kahar said it had given the police a "green light" to conduct anti-terrorism operations in any way they wanted.
He said all he had ever wanted was recognition that "we are not terrorists".
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