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It comes after an armed sergeant was found not guilty of murdering Chris Kaba.
Sergeant Martyn Blake was acquitted on Monday after shooting dead 24-year-old Mr Kaba, but has been forced to flee his home and go into hiding after gangsters put a ￡10,000 bounty on his head.
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Senior former police officers have criticised the decision to charge him with the alleged offence while there has also been anger over his name being publicly identified ahead of the trial.
Yvette Cooper unveiled a string of reforms as she told MPs a review of how police who take fatal shots in the line of duty are held to account found the system was “not commanding the confidence of either the public or the police” amid wider concerns about disciplinary proceedings.
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Mr Blake, 40, was cleared by a jury of the murder in Streatham, south London, in September 2022.
He fired a single bullet through the windscreen of the Audi Q8 that 24-year-old Kaba was driving as armed officers surrounded the car while he tried to escape.
When reporting restrictions were lifted after the case concluded, it emerged Mr Kaba was a “core member” of one of London’s most dangerous criminal gangs and was allegedly directly linked to two shootings in the six days before he was shot dead by police.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is reviewing whether Mr Blake should still face disciplinary proceedings.
Ms Cooper said the case happened “against a backdrop of wider and long-standing concerns about accountability, standards and confidence” and amid “fallen community confidence in policing and the criminal justice system across the country”, particularly among Black communities.
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Speaking in the Commons on Wednesday, she said: “The accountability review found that the current system for holding police officers to account is not commanding the confidence of either the public or the police.
“Accountability and misconduct proceedings are too often plagued by delays stretching for years, which are damaging for complainants, officers and forces alike, and the system has become much more complex, with confusion over multiple thresholds for different investigations, a lack of clarity, especially involving specialist capabilities.
“There are also wider concerns about the misconduct system, because the focus when things go wrong can end up being entirely on the decisions of the individual officer.
“So systems failings like poor training, unmanageable caseloads or wider false practices are not sufficiently considered or followed up so too little changes.”
As well as introducing a “presumption of anonymity for firearms officers subject to criminal trial following a police shooting in the course of their professional duties, up to the point of conviction”, Ms Cooper vowed to raise the threshold for officers facing court so it matches the measure the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) uses for making charging decisions about members of the public.
“Currently, that threshold is lower for police officers, and that is not justified,” she said.
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Bereaved families will also be given the right to appeal when the IOPC decides not to seek a charge against an officer.
The review began under the previous Conservative government when then home secretary Suella Braverman pledged to review the ways that firearms officers who take fatal shots are held accountable, with the work continuing after Labour won the general election.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley is among those who previously branded the current accountability system as “broken” and raised concerns it might lead to a loss of morale among firearms officers.