Police chief in charge of Tube shooting gets CBE

THE f ormer top policewoman who led the bungled operation in which Jean Charles de Menezes was shot dead by armed officers on the London Underground has been made a CBE.

Cressida Dick, pictured, who quit Scotland Yard earlier this month, receives the honour f or services to policing.

Mr de Menezes, 27, an innocent Brazilian electrician, was killed in 2005 after he was mistaken for one of the July 21 Tube bombers as a result of a deeply flawed surveillance operation.

As ‘Gold’ commander on the day, Miss Dick gave the order to ‘stop’ Mr de Menezes as he entered Stockwell Tube station.

Two officers cornered him on a Tube train and shot him seven times in the head at close range with expanding ‘hollow point’ bullets.

The Metropolitan Police offered an unreserved apology to the family of Mr de Menezes and paid them more than £10,000 in compensation.

Miss Dick, now 54, survived the scandal and went on to become the country’s most senior woman officer – a Yard assistant commissioner – and was tipped to lead the London force.

Now she is due to begin a new job as a ‘director general’ at the Foreign Office.

Oxford-educated Miss Dick, who is president of the British Association of Women Police, joined the Met as a constable in 19 3.