UK’s top policeman secretly taped phone calls
Britain’s top policeman, already under pressure over the mistaken shooting of a suspected suicide bomber, faced calls to quit on Monday for secretly recording a phone call with the country’s senior legal adviser. Sir Ian Blair, London’s police chief, also recorded calls with members of a commission investigating the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, his office said. The revelations, the latest in a series of gaffes, have prompted calls from some quarters for Blair, who only took charge of London’s 30,000-strong force last February, to quit. Full Story