Earlier on Thursday, Geraghty said officers were keeping an open mind in terms of the investigation but were “satisfied there is no terrorist link”. Wendy Williams, from HMIC, said: “We move police forces into our enhanced level of monitoring, known as ‘Engage’, when a force is not responding to our concerns, or if it is not managing, mitigating or eradicating these concerns. We have gone from being one of the worst call-handling forces to one of the best in 11 months; and have improved the proportion of emergency incidents attended within our specified targets by 25%.” Another chief constable told the Guardian that police leaders increasingly feel the inspectorate is treating them unfairly, making unrealistic demands and failing to appreciate limited resources mean choices have to be made. “You cannot get a gold star for everything,” they said. Police attempted to engage with the individual before two shots were fired by an officer just before 9pm after he left the property he had called from, the Met said.

A police cordon was set up around the Irish parliament building, Leinster House, and officers from the Garda Mounted Support Unit were in nearby Grafton Street. Given a man has died after being shot by police, our role is to investigate all of the circumstances surrounding this incident including the actions and decisions taken by the police.It’s our responsibility to make sure that we police the streets, and part of that is we ask people to act responsibly and not to listen to the misinformation and rumour that is circulating on social media,” he said. “The facts are being established, but the facts are still not clear on a lot of the rumour and the innuendo is being spread for malevolent purposes.” The IOPC is independently investigating this matter. It is right that officers are held to account when shots are fired, and we will work with the IOPC to provide all the information they need to carry out their inquiries. The clear-up rate for West Midlands police had fallen to 3% by December 2022, but has since trebled. The ‘Engage’ process provides additional scrutiny and support from the inspectorate and other external organisations in the policing sector.”

When I joined WMP … I recognised there needed to be a significant improvement in the force’s performance, the number of offenders brought to justice and the service we provide to local communities.

We know there will be questions about what happened but it’s important that we establish the facts about this incident before we comment further.” The IOPC said a firearm was located near the man and another was recovered from inside the property. West Midlands joins four other forces in special measures, including the country’s biggest, the Metropolitan police. The other forces judged to be failing and of concern are Devon and Cornwall, Staffordshire and Wiltshire. Gaelscoil Choláiste Mhuire is an Irish-medium primary school with 172 pupils based in a four-storey Georgian building on Parnell Square, a busy thoroughfare in Dublin’s north inner city. HMIC placed West Midlands police in “Engage”, known colloquially as special measures, after an inspection. It will be seen as a sign of the crisis gripping policing.