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Menezes surveillance 'mistaken' Menezes surveillance 'confusion'
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The police chief leading operations on the day Jean Charles de Menezes' was shot has told an inquest surveillance messages were "clearly misinterpreted".The police chief leading operations on the day Jean Charles de Menezes' was shot has told an inquest surveillance messages were "clearly misinterpreted".
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick said information from a fellow officer had led her to believe the Brazilian was an "immediate threat". Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick said officers were at one time unsure whether the Brazilian was the suspect they were looking for.
Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot dead on a train at Stockwell Tube station by police hunting a suicide bomber.Mr de Menezes, 27, was shot dead on a train at Stockwell Tube station by police hunting a suicide bomber.
Ms Dick said that at the time she had "no doubt" they stopped the right man. Ms Dick said at the time she had "no doubt" they stopped the right man.
Mr de Menezes was shot seven times in the head on 22 July 2005, by police who believed he was failed bomber Hussain Osman. Electrician Mr de Menezes was shot seven times in the head on 22 July 2005, by police who believed he was failed bomber Hussain Osman.
Ms Dick was overseeing his pursuit from a control room at Scotland Yard. Protecting London
She told the inquest at Oval cricket ground: "There was a period when I was being told that the surveillance team thought this was not the suspect." Ms Dick was overseeing his pursuit through south London from a control room at Scotland Yard.
Ian Stern QC, representing the firearms officers, asked Ms Dick whether she was "satisfied that the suspect represented a real and immediate threat" and was intent on causing an explosion at the time he was shot.
I had trained a lot and understood about covert operations where there is a threat-to-life situation Deputy Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick
Ms Dick told the inquest at Oval cricket ground that she was.
She told the jury, a fellow officer monitoring operations "clearly misinterpreted when he was assessing what they [officers following Mr de Menezes] were saying".
She said: "There was a period when I was being told that the surveillance team thought this was not the suspect."
The officer said she was later informed: "They think it's him."The officer said she was later informed: "They think it's him."
Ms Dick told the jury: "I was in no doubt that he had been identified." Ms Dick said: "I was in no doubt that he had been identified."
She denied claims that she was "running away" from her duties by failing to get officers to stop Mr de Menezes before he entered the station.She denied claims that she was "running away" from her duties by failing to get officers to stop Mr de Menezes before he entered the station.
Ms Dick said it was too dangerous to challenge him on a bus.Ms Dick said it was too dangerous to challenge him on a bus.
She added said was "trying to protect" the people of London.
She said: "I am in a senior rank, I am paid - relatively - a lot of money to take responsibility and that's what I tried to do.
"I had trained a lot and understood about covert operations where there is a threat-to-life situation. Not all my commander colleagues would perhaps say the same.
"I certainly do not spend time worrying about questions I might have asked."