Police chiefs nationally have rewritten the rulebook for the handling of police informers in the light of Sir John's findings, and the Home Office is being asked to change immigration law, which allows foreign criminals with highly dangerous track records to be released into the community while their applications to stay in the country are considered.
"If you ask me whether I think there is a case for cutting police budgets in the light of these events, then my answer to that would be no.
Unprompted, he told BBC Radio 4's Today: "If you ask me whether I think there is a case for cutting police budgets in the light of these events, then my answer to that would be a 'no'," The mayor, who is seeking re-election to City Hall next year, went on: "That case was always pretty frail and it has been substantially weakened.
So in 2011, rather than looking at embedded structural issues, including the way black communities are policed – especially in the light of the police shooting of Mark Duggan in Tottenham – the response was to hand out massive penalties to those convicted, in order to dissuade anyone else from taking to the streets in future protests.
Is there any way that policing can be reformed in a balanced fashion amid today's contemptible partisan bidding war on police powers, and in the light of the increasing willingness of politicians to sack senior officers for party reasons?
He said: "If you ask me whether I think there is a case for cutting police budgets... in the light of these events, then my answer to that would be a 'no'no
Andreas Croll, a senior antiterrorism officer with the Hamburg state police, said that in the light of the videotapes, "It is fairly easy to make the conclusion after these excerpts that this was a fundamentalist group, and this was the environment that Atta and his roommates were from".
The Philippines said it would consider whether or not to withdraw its tiny contingent of 50 soldiers, police and medical workers in the light of "the security situation in the days to come", but this was seen as an effort to fend off criticism ahead of an election next month.In this section The centre holds, but only just Bloodier and sadder We told you so, but what now?
Police re-opened their probe in the light of the fresh evidence and the 65-year-old was charged in May - even though the letters are still not thought to be admissible in court.
Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, said: "In the light of the policing of the G20 protests, people up and down the country will want to be confident that there was evidence of a real conspiracy to commit criminal damage by those arrested and that this was not just an attempt by the police to disrupt perfectly legitimate protest per se".
