London police officer shot dead inside police station
Source: Washington Post
A London police officer on Friday morning was shot dead inside a police station, London Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
The officer was killed by a man who had already been arrested and was being detained at a custody center in Croydon, a neighborhood in south London, police said. The officer was treated at the scene and later died at a hospital.
Police said a 23-year-old man was detained at the scene. The suspect was also taken to hospital with a gunshot wound.
The police said no police firearms were fired during the incident, prompting questions about whether the suspect was properly searched at the time of his arrest.
It is rare for a British police officer to be killed in the line of duty. The police officer in Croydon is the 17th officer from the London Metropolitan Police to be killed by a firearm since the Second World War, according to the BBC.
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