![]() However, it is believed that he had been referred to the Prevent programme. Scotland Yard have not yet confirmed if he was on the radar of counter-terrorism police following the claims made by BBC News. The man remains in a critical condition in hospital.' ![]() This has not yet been established as fact. It is believed that the suspect then produced the gun and shot the officer. Commissioner Cressida Dick added: 'Early indications are that the suspect shot himself. The man is understood to have been put into a holding cell, and the officer who died then opened the door to get his personal details and go through the station's Covid-19 procedures. They searched him and allegedly found ammunition on him, before handcuffing him and driving him in a patrol car to the custody centre. The arrested man - who is still alive in hospital despite turning the gun on himself - had been arrested by a special constable with a normal officer on patrol after he was seen behaving strangely. Officers and paramedics then treated the officer - who was said to have been nearing retirement - at the scene before he was taken to hospital where he later died. ![]() The detained man was said to have been about to be assessed and have his temperature and details taken as part of new booking rules amid the coronavirus pandemic after arriving at Croydon custody centre in South London.īut he shot the officer point-blank - allegedly in the chest - at about 2.15am this morning following his arrest on suspicion of possessing ammunition. The gunman who shot dead a Metropolitan Police custody sergeant in the early hours of the morning was deemed a 'potential terror threat' and had been referred to the anti-extremism Prevent programme, it was claimed today.
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