Reply #1: That's absurd - he is trying to cover up evidence

[muriel_volestrangler]

How could allowing the IPCC access to the crime scene "put further lives at risk"? His first claim, that revealing the police tactics or how they get their information is a problem, is highly contestable (if we, as the members of the public, don't know that a shoot-to-kill policy is in force, then we are at risk ourselves), but there is no way he can extend that to barring the IPCC from examining the crime scene.

In practice, what this means is that the Met got a chance to destroy the station videos.