Top policeman secretly taped calls

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LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Britain's most senior police officer, already under pressure over the mistaken shooting of a suspected suicide bomber, was reprimanded on Monday for secretly recording a phone call with the government's top legal adviser.

Sir Ian Blair, London's police commissioner, also recorded calls with members of a commission investigating the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, his office said.

The chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), which oversees the London police and can discipline their senior officers, told Blair his actions were "wholly unacceptable."

News of the recordings, the latest in a series of gaffes by Blair, have prompted calls for him to step down as head of London's 30,000-strong police force.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/03/13/uk.blair.reut/index.html

[Richard Steele]

1. SPIN much? Blatantly criminal behavior is just 'mistakes' and 'gaffes'...

...as long as a high-level COP is doing it.

Yeah, if I shoot some stranger in the head on the tubeway,
and then follow up with 5 rounds in his BACK...

Oops! Major Faux Pas; what a gaffe!