An ex-Cop sheds light on the only way Prince Harry has to get his taxpayers’ funded security back.
The ex-COP in question is the former leader of Britain’s Counter Terrorism Unit, Neil Basu.
He was talking to The telegraph When you set aside this judgment and said, “Fact is this. If the Metropolitan Police had been asked to protect the Duke of Sussex from either the head of state – whether it was the queen at the time or the future king – we would protect this person.”
And “There is nothing at all that would have led us to say, ‘no, I’m sorry, sir or lady, we don’t’, ‘he admitted.
As for what it would take to get this security, ex-cup admitted, “I’ve been asked many times, I think reality is the Duke of Sussex and the head of state, his father, would probably have to come to a certain scheme between them. I think reconciliation would be the key to this problem.”
Still, “What I want to say is the head of state, both the queen when she was alive, and the king today would constantly want to interfere in the decision of neither the government nor the police. And I happened to have known them both, and I know they would comply with it.”
“It’s pretty brutal for principals [royals] When the decision, the powers of discretion, is ‘good, it would have no influence at all, so we just let you protect you’. ‘
“And this is where they have left him, but I think they did it because they didn’t think he would leave. I think they thought if he wasn’t protected, he wouldn’t leave the country,” he added before signing.
