The identities of the firearms team who took part in this training exercise is being avoided at all costs by Essex police, more so what they actually got up to. The training exercise they partook in resulted in a delay of the crime scene being handed over into the control of SOC - which did not officially take place until 10am, that same morning...
One of the problems associated with this training exercise and what the police got up to whilst it was being carried out, was that SOC recorded the scene as it fell to be photographed from 10am onwards, and treated it as though this was how the scene had originally been found by members of the raid team when they first entered the premises at about 7:30am. Yet, in actual fact the scene SOC recorded was the one left by members of the training exercise. There is / was no guarantee that what SOC photographed and recorded from 10am, was the same crime scene found by police when they first entered the building, but it seems more and more likely that what SOC recorded was how the scene was left by the as yet unidentified officers who took part in this training exercise with the bodies of the victims still in stitu...