LONDON - London's Metropolitan Police said Saturday the department has reviewed the use of deadly force against suspected terrorists after the killing of an innocent man, but has made only minor changes.
The police also said they had offered a $26,950 payment to the family of the Brazilian man who was killed but stressed it "does not inhibit any future claim that the family may have against the Metropolitan Police Service."
Separately, a newspaper reported that Scotland Yard believes it foiled a potential al-Qaida gas attack on Britain's Parliament.
The plot to unleash deadly nerve gas sarin on the House of Commons was hatched last year and uncovered through coded e-mails on computers seized from terror suspects in Britain and Pakistan, the Sunday Times newspaper said, citing an internal police document it obtained.
Metropolitan Police refused to comment on the report.
The review of the deadly force policy followed the July 22 killing of Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, who was wrongly suspected of being a suicide terrorist.
"The police have reviewed the strategy and we have made one or two small changes, but the operation remains essentially the same," a police spokeswoman said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of department policy.
She declined to discuss details of the changes in Operation Kratos, the force's name for the policy.
Police denied a report that they had offered $1 million in compensation to the Menezes family.
A report in Saturday's editions of The Daily Mail said a senior officer had made an initial offer of compensation during a visit to Brazil two weeks ago.
"We will not be bought off. We will not be silenced," the man's parents, Matozinho and Maria de Menezes, said, according to the newspaper.
However, police said they had offered a $26,950 to the Menezes' family.
Meanwhile, Britain's top security official, Home Secretary Charles Clarke who is responsible for policing, said Saturday he had full confidence in London police commissioner Sir Ian Blair.
Blair, who apologized for the mistaken killing, has denied any police cover-up or attempt to block the Independent Police Complaints Commission's investigation now under way.
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