Cop Out

The Metropolitan Firearms and Headbangers' Club has forcibly reinstated one of its ex-members, who resigned prematurely in the face of his forthcoming exoneration by the IPCC. The officer was involved in a 2008 case in which, having responded to repeated 999 calls with near-G4S levels of efficiency, various Club members contributed to the demise-by-restraint of a black man with paranoid schizophrenia. After the traditional fashion, the IPCC's initial investigation cleared the Club of all wrongdoing; but in 2012 a coroner's court ruled that unsuitable and unnecessary force had been used, and the IPCC has been forced to try and cobble together another acquittal. Accordingly, after various hints including a threat of court action by the victim's family, the officer's resignation has been rescinded in order that he may feel the full effect of whatever line is eventually drawn under the case.