Well I do suspect that, unlike the poor Iraq squaddies who are up for courts martial, these policemen will be protected by their chain of command. For a while anyways!
Alas my Simian friend that will not be the case. I have a mate in the Lothian and borders police and he said the procedure after any shooting is to all-but arrest the police marksman and debrief him (read interrogate) According to my mate it's not something you want to be on the recieving end of. As for the shooting. Do not all civilian issued Hand guns have a maximum of two automatic discharged rounds? and would this not apply to police hand guns? if that is indeed the case then the marksman would had to have squeezed the trigger at least 3 times. Does anyone have any info on police sidearms?