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We are investigating after a 21 year old man was shot by Metropolitan Police officers at a property in Hackney in the early hours of Tuesday 20 March. The man remains in hospital in a critical condition.

At this stage we have established that officers, initially responding to an alleged armed robbery of a vehicle, recovered evidence linking the robbery to a house in Mandeville Street. A number of firearms officers went to the address to attempt to detain one of the occupants.

IOPC Regional Director Jonathan Green yesterday said: “A young man is in hospital in a critical condition and my thoughts go to all those affected by this incident.

“Our investigators have been at the scene overnight and throughout today carefully overseeing the collection of forensic evidence and have attended post incident procedures where key witness accounts from officers were provided.

“We have also been provided with a large amount of body worn video footage some of which we have viewed and we will continue to do so over coming days to establish the sequence of events which culminated in this serious incident.

“We have been able to verify that six officers discharged their weapons a total of 13 times during the incident and can confirm that a non-police issue firearm was recovered from the scene.

“We will be conducting a robust independent investigation to find out the circumstances leading up to the firing of the weapons and the actions of officers immediately afterwards.”

We were contacted by the Metropolitan Police and at 3.20am an independent investigation was launched.

Our investigators have also met with the young man’s parents to explain our role.