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Scotland Yard has launched an urgent review after a Muslim police officer was excused from guarding London's Israeli Embassy on moral grounds.
PC Alexander Omar Basha, who is attached to the Metropolitan Police's Diplomatic Protection Group, asked for special dispensation because of his objection to Israel's bombing of Lebanon.
Former Flying Squad commander John O'Connor criticised the decision and warned: "This is the beginning of the end for British policing. When you join the police, you do so to provide a service to the public. If you cannot perform those duties, you leave."
A Scotland Yard spokesman refused to comment on the specific case but said they would consider special requests to be moved on moral grounds.
He said: "Each case is considered separately, balancing the needs of the Metropolitan Police Service against those of the individual and the role which they will have to perform.
"However, the needs of the MPS take precedence and the organisation reserves the right to post an officer anywhere within the MPS"
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When you join the police, you do so to provide a service to the public. If you cannot perform those duties, you leave."
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Too true, you cannot just pick and choose what job you will or will not do, in your employment, and that applies even more so in the Police / Armed Forces.
If he is allowed to get away with that, then our Troops should be able to refuse to fight the war, in the Middle East, on the same grounds.
05-10-2006, 01:46 PM
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