To supplement what TFG has said, PC Sherwood should never have been put into this position on what, in some accounts, may have been his first ever armed raid. I was also surprised to read that each raid member had been issued with 55 rounds of ammunition. I wonder what they were expecting. The Kent Police inquiry into the shooting concluded there had been "a complete corporate failure in duty to society" in Sussex. Police inspectors doing a "risk assessment" found Sussex Police fell below the standard in 18 out of 19 performance indicators. Yet apart from Mr Whitehouse, it is not clear if anyone has suffered as a result,apart from PC Sherwood.