Ian Blair Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

It does remain possible that those at large will strike again,

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

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,

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

We made a small number of administrative changes,

Where does resignation end? Of course, it might end fairly soon.

We don't know if there is a fifth man, or a sixth man, a seventh man,

We will be monitoring the development in Egypt very carefully, and if it's necessary we will send officers there, or we will seek extradition or whatever other processes are necessary.

At the moment we have nothing that links the two groups, but the investigation still continues and there is an intuitive view that says that each group of four are so similar that we must have concerns, and we do.

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.

it would be arrogant not to consider the issue of resignation in such circumstances but stressed he had no plans to resign.

The second attacks on the 21st of July should not be taken as some indication that the weakening of the capability or resolve of those responsible,

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

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,

It has facilitators, so we're looking for the bomb makers, we're looking for the chemists, we're looking for the financiers, we're looking for the people who groomed these young people, so it will be a wide network that we're trying to penetrate.

If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

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'd much rather resign than be pushed.

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,