A bit of a report from Saturday's meeting. I'm not sure I can do justice to a two hour meeting and I'm not sure that all of the audience were fully reassured by the very limited facts that were made available. But here are some of the notes I made during the meeting:

- One of the officers explained in general terms, without specific reference to the incident, sometimes tazers don't work, for example 'through thick layers of clothing'. If I remember correctly, last Sunday morning it was very cold.
- Time between the arrive of local police and the arrival of armed response team appears to have been 13 minutes.
- Police will be arresting the man who was shot, once he is well enough. IPCC wish to interview him after that.
- Officers who discharged their weapons have provided written statements for the IPCC and are not on active duty (standard procedure after weapons discharge). They can be interviewed further by the IPCC later, possibly under caution if necessary.
- Police were pleased with the public response and the 'wealth of evidence' in this case.
- There has been an increased police presence in the area since the incident to reassure the public and to ensure witnesses came forward.
- The man who was shot lives very locally to the incident.
- No police officers or other members of the public were wounded.
- The police did not detail anything about what happened but there were two neighbours who witnessed part of the scene. Some of this evidence was possibly contradictory (did he have more than one knife), but the scene was described as 'chaotic' immediately after shots were fired, with 'no one in control'.