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英国首相卡梅伦被撞暴露英国安保问题严峻

A jogger who ran past bodyguards knocked into David Cameron yesterday, starting a security alert.

Dean Farley, 28, ran into the Prime Minister outside Leeds Civic Hall yesterday. Experts accused officers of allowing a “very significant security breach

（漏洞）”. Security experts pointed out that Mr Cameron could have been attacked or killed. Although he was uninjured, police faced severe criticism. An investigation has been launched to look into the incident.

Dai Davis, a former head of royal protection, said police had serious questions to answer about their failures to protect Mr Cameron yesterday. “This is a serious failure of security,’ he told the Mail. ‘There should have been a proper formation（编队）where you have an inner and outer ring of protection officers, with uniformed officers as back-up. If that had happened, this man would have got nowhere near the Prime Minister.”

But the jogger said he didn’t even know it was the Prime Minister he knocked into. He claimed he had merely “brushed into someone” and had no idea it was Mr Cameron, who was in Leeds announcing plans to improve railways in the North. He was arrested and held for 50 minutes before being released. West Yorkshire Police said it was “nothing threatening, just a man in the wrong place at the wrong time”.

Mr Davis said: “I am astonished that given the current threat level, there was not enough protection because he is a worldwide target. If there had been two or more attackers plotting an organized attack, the Prime Minister might not be here. It is more astonishing that Mr Cameron is left standing alone completely vulnerable（易受攻击的）for five to six seconds while all attention was on this man. No one gets him safely in the car.”

Andy Redhead, a former police firearms officer, also described the incident as “shocking”. “I wouldn’t be surprised if people on the team are moved to other places as a result,” he said, adding: “Fortunately the man had no acid, no knife, and no firearm.”