An extract from today’s Independent newspaper
Special Branch 'altered official log' to cover up fatal Menezes blunder
By Maxine Frith
Published: 30 January 2006

A leaked copy of the report obtained by the News of the World said the IPCC found that the undercover surveillance team saw Mr Menezes coming out of a house in Tulse Hill and, according to a first draft of a police control room log, identified him as Hussein Osman, a suspect in the July 21 attacks. Commander Cressida Dick, the Scotland Yard officer responsible for the firearms team, then instigated Operation Kratos, the anti-terrorist strategy that permits suspected suicide bombers to be shot.
The IPCC report found that 10 hours after the shooting, by which time it was known the dead man was innocent, the Special Branch team attended a debriefing meeting in which they were allowed to make alterations to the log. A line in it was changed from saying the team said Mr Menezes "was Osman" by the insertion of the word "not" - passing the blame to the Scotland Yard team.
The amendments were supposed to be signed and accompanied by an explanation, but this was not done, in an apparent attempt to pass off the revised log as the original. According to the newspaper, the IPCC report concludes: "This looks like an attempt to try to distance Special Branch from the decision [to shoot Mr Menezes]."

Well there you go, we’ve all done it, a small cock up at work, change the story a little a bit & Bob’s your Aunties live-in-lover, some other poor sod cops the blame.
The slight trouble in this case, is that this cock up led to Mr Menzes getting seven bullets in his head and no chance to use his ‘super saver’ season ticket.
How on earth did the idiot who added the ‘not’ expect to get away with it?
Special Branch? Obviously not that special, unless special is being used in the same way that certain children are referred to as having ‘special’ needs.
The audacity and stupidity of people who are put into positions of power never fails to amaze.