Met orders review after Muslim refuses to guard Israeli embassy

October 5th, 2006 § 0 comments

Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, last night ordered an urgent review of a policy that allows officers to refuse certain duties on moral grounds after a decision to excuse a Muslim policeman from guarding the Israeli embassy.

PC Alexander Omar Basha, who is attached to the force’s Diplomatic Protection Group, objected to being posted to protect Israel’s embassy in central London from possible terrorist attack because he disagreed with the country’s bombing of Lebanon. The officer had reportedly attended a recent anti-war protest.

What to do eh? Either you make the chap go against his morals, but then if you let a copper object to a duty, where will it end (uh, oh. I sound like a Daily Mail reader)?

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