Ian Tomlinson died after being struck by a police officer during the 2009 G-20 summit protests. The officer, Simon Harwood, was prosecuted for manslaughter. He was found not guilty but was dismissed from the police service for gross misconduct. Inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing, but Harwood was not charged with manslaughter.
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Ian Tomlinson died after being struck by a police officer during the 2009 G-20 summit protests. The officer, Simon Harwood, was prosecuted for manslaughter. He was found not guilty but was dismissed from the police service for gross misconduct. The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) was set up in 2004. It replaced the Police Authority following public dissatisfaction with the latter’s relationship with the police. The IPCC operates independently of the Home Office, which is the department responsible for justice in England and Wales. The G20 security operation, codenamed Glencoe, was a criminal and criminal criminal operation, which meant the Met, the City of London Police and the British Transport Police worked under one another. There were six protests on April 1, 2009: a security operation at ExCeLe, a Stop the War march outside the Chinese Embassy, a People & Planet protest outside the Bank of England and a Climate Camp at the same time. On the same day, over 5,000 police officers were deployed and a number of protesters were at the Camp at Broadhurst, near London’s Goldsmiths’ College, to protest against the Iraq War. The Met’s Territorial Support Group (TSG) specializes in public-order policing, wearing military-style helmets, flame-retardant overalls, stab vests and balaclavas. The TSG’s operational commander at the time was Chief Superintendent Mick Johnson. Their operational commander was Nick Hardwick, who was the Met’s chief constable when the incident took place.
The CPS charged Harwood with manslaughter in 2011, but he was acquitted in 2012 and dismissed from service a few months later. He worked for the Evening Standard, London’s evening newspaper. At the time of his death, at the age of 47, he was working casually as a vendor for the newspaper. He had a history of alcoholism, as a result of which he had been living apart from his second wife, Julia, for 13 years, and had experienced long periods of homelessness. The route he took was his usual way home from a newspaper stand on Fish Street Hill outside Monument tube station, where he worked with a friend, Barry Smith. He died from internal bleeding caused by blunt force trauma to the abdomen, in association with cirrhosis of the liver. The Crown Prosecution Service decided not to charge Harwood because the disagreement between the first and later pathologists meant they could not show a causal link between the death and alleged assault. Inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing, but Harwood was not charged with manslaughter. After the inquest jury returned the verdict, Harwood’s actions were acknowledged as having caused the death. The Metropolitan Police Service paid Tomlison’s family an undisclosed sum and acknowledged that Harwood’s actions had caused Tom linson’s death. With over 31,000 officers, the Met Police Service is the largest police force in the United Kingdom, responsible for policing Greater London, except for the financial district, the city of London.
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