Inspector Ehikioya said the debate over officers intervening or not doesn’t stop officers from doing their job, but makes it harder
that political interference is creating “confusion” amid rising tensions between the force and the Home Office over posters of Israeli hostages being torn down.
“One has to be a little bit careful when trying to deliver policing services and ensuring that there is there is no ambiguity around the position of policing around impartiality. “People’s emotional reaction gets the better of them and then they want to interpret what the law should be in comparison with what the officers are doing.”
He said officers must operate on the right side of “the line of the law” but added: “It’s our job to enforce to that line, it’s Parliament’s job to draw that line and the thought that maybe events of the moment are illustrating that maybe some of the lines aren’t in the right place.”
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