Calls for British police chief to quit for taping call

BRITAIN’s police chief, already under pressure over the mistaken shooting of a suspected suicide bomber, is facing fresh calls to resign for secretly recording a phone call with the country’s senior legal adviser.

Sir Ian Blair, London’s police chief, also recorded calls with members of a commission investigating the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, his office said.

The revelations, the latest in a series of gaffes, have prompted calls from some quarters for Mr Blair, who only took charge of London’s 30,000-strong force last February, to quit.