Ian Blair Quotes (14 Quotes)

Our main priority is to make sure that everyone has an enjoyable time and is kept safe, ... The community has been very much behind the Metropolitan Police after the events of July 7 and July 21, and I think this is a good example of that.

The threat remains as clear and manifest as it has ever since last July.

What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.

I can remember being asked a question about a previous individual who was given a caution. I think that was a wrong decision.

The community has been very much behind the Metropolitan Police after the events of July 7 and 21, and I think this is a very good example of that,

It does also remain possible that there are other cells who are capable and intent on striking again.

These allegations strike to the heart of the integrity of the police and integrity of the Met and I fundamentally reject them. There is no cover-up.

This is not the B-team. These weren't the amateurs. They made a mistake, they made one mistake. We are very, very lucky.

It's mostly been a very friendly and generally good atmosphere,

We have to look at the impact of this kind of behavior on impressionable young people and if there is evidence, something should be done about it,

It is a package that delivers safer neighbourhoods to everyone in London, that takes people out of their offices and puts them on the streets, that asks officers to walk as much as possible by themselves so they are accessible to the public, and it is part of the overall modernisation of the Metropolitan Police.

There is a Pakistan connection. But what we expect to find at some stage is that there is a clear al Qaeda link because the four men who are dead are in the category of foot soldiers.

I am really sending out the same message to the terrorists as I have been all along which is that London will endure and prevail,

Clearly the intention must have been to kill.