London: Two British police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian man who they suspected was a suicide bomber will return to operational duties, London police said on Friday.
The firearms officers had faced restrictions on their roles after Jean Charles de Menezes was controversially shot dead on an underground train in the capital last July.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission, which investigated the case, had recommended that the two officers should face criminal charges according to the BBC.
But earlier this month prosecutors decided to take no action. The Crown Prosecution Service said evidence supported the police officers' claims that they had genuinely believed de Menezes was a suicide bomber.
Following that decision, Scotland Yard said both officers would now resume full operational duties.
The 27-year-old Brazilian electrician was shot seven times in the head after he boarded a London underground train at Stockwell station in south London in July last year.
British police were on high alert after four suicide bombers killed 52 people on three underground trains and a bus two weeks earlier, while detectives say a copycat attack the day before the shooting only failed because the bombs failed to detonate.
The circumstances surrounding the incident still remain a hotly disputed issue.
London police chief Ian Blair has been heavily criticised and is still facing calls for his resignation over the blunder.
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