ken marsh and the police federation.uld be armed —— whether please should be armed —— whether the police should be armed, and of course some of them are armed, but ordinary police who are not armed and now questions will be asked. people have gone up two policemen and spoke to them, maybe more then they ordinarily would. this is when we recognise just what they do. with me now is raffaello pantucci, director of international security studies at the royal united services institute. khalid masood is slightly older than the normal profile, 52, he has not been imprisoned since 2003 and that might explain why he has dropped off the radar. we are understanding now only about his history and that will be key to his radicalisation. his profile as an older individual is an interesting one and it breaks from the norm that we usually expect, usually we see younger men, the reactive, who are participating, but thatis reactive, who are participating, but that is not completely unusual —— who are active. we saw a prisoner from one tow

i'm joined by ken marsh, the chairman of the metropolitan police federation.ing with us. how is everyone doing? 0k. obviously it thank you for being with us. how is everyone doing? ok. obviously it has beena very everyone doing? ok. obviously it has been a very traumatic 24 hours but we have to get on with ourjob. we are here to police the streets of london, to keep the community safe, thatis london, to keep the community safe, that is what we are signed up to do, and we will do it. 0ver and we will do it. over the last 2a hours, you have been talking to colleagues and visiting hospitals as well? absolutely. we have visited all of oui’ absolutely. we have visited all of our colleagues in hospital and given the support that is required for all of them to offer them everything that we can to ensure a speedy recovery. in terms of recovery, how are your collea g u es in terms of recovery, how are your colleagues doing? i cannot go into details but they are not good. they have serious injuries, that they will recover from, i hope. and have you noticed too, so many