Interesting time for a police officer on that high a salary to become so enraged over £25,000. That sum, by the way, is about what a frontline police officer with 2 years experience receives a year, and for that he/she may need to face violent drunks, gun toting criminals, terrorists, fatal road accidents and much more. Add to that the Government's present campaign to force a pay deal on police that amounts to a pay cut in real terms..........hmmmmm?

Paul, London,

BONUS? If he does his job properly he should be allowed to keep it (His job) otherwise advertise his position as vacant-
We have lost the commonsense and impartiality for which the Broitish police force was renowned-perhaps the world over- by introducing 'Bonuses' to senior officers resuling in the pressure on lower ranks to pursue 'numbers', trivial offences which would previously been dealt with by a 'commonsense approach and no doubt on the spot verbal caution.
But the 'numbers' game looks good for police chiefs and GOVT.!

mike, oxford, england

A drop in the crime rate? That's a laugh! More likely a drop in the amount of people REPORTING crime as people are fed up with nothing being done! And if something is done, it is the persecution of the innocent! Still, on the bright side we should all look forward to at least another 5 years of a Labour government.......

Graham Palfrey, Littlehampton,

Any leader who even contemplates taking any bonus, let alone one of this magnitude, while his organisation is still subject to an investigation of such importance as the de Menezes murder, cannot command any respect from anyone.

When that person is the UK’s senior police officer, then we should all worry about standards of public behaviour generally and our expectations of corruption-free justice in the UK.

What would the de Menezes family think of this?

SteveH, London, UK

bonus he should be sacked after that fiasco.
how does the menezes family feel that britain is rewarding the person responsible for killing an innocent man. what has britain now become that we reward life takers rather than life savers. britain deserves better by putting the great before it again.

michael mckeary, paisley, scotland

There will always be a place in the Metropolitan Police for their lovely well trained horses. Stubborn, insensitive donkey's? Now that's a different matter entirely.

London tax payers would feel a lot safer if the same amount of concentration was applied to other matters like preventing the kind of disgusting bodge up that cost an innocent young man his life, and NOT how much extra money the same person in overall charge of the service can grasp.

Ken.H, Harrow,

What is essential to understand, is that we must all feel GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY about drink, weight, climate change,waste,being alive, flying, etc etc. There ia major guilt industry out there. The only problem is that I , like many, no longer listen to this obsession with Guilt - and will of course then miss the story that we should not

Stuart Hamilton, Taiunton,

No different from the health chief who got a bonus when people were dropping like flies under her watch or Baroness Young when the flood defences she was in charge of failed. You don't need to do much more than turn up occasionally to get a bonus if you're in a high public office. Shows how they are all awash with cash that they want to divert into their own pockets. How many taxpayers would have had to work for how many days to produce £25,000? The people in charge of this country at the moment think that there is a never ending pool of money at their disposal produced by taxpayers that they despise and ignore.

Simon, Chatham, Kent

Ian Blair has lost it.. A man who is in charge of an organisation, and does not know what is happenning.. and then wants a bonus.. someone tell him..

keith, Perigueux, france

Blair (that's Ian) should have resigned after the de Menezes shooting. For political reasons he didn't, but he's been damaged goods since. Considering the tax he must be already paying, making an issue of a £25,000-bonus payment really does call attention to his lack of judgement. Time to clean the stables.

Andrew Milner, Karuizawa, Nagano

Why whould anyone expect a bonus for doing what, in this particular case, is a very highly paid job? Clearly, his paymasters, the public, are not as impressed by him as he obviously is by himself.

Lezli Taubler, London, UK

Blair is unfit to hold this office. He is a showboating, arrogant PR man, not a police officer.
It is high time he fell on his sword.

Michael Rigby, blackburn, England