The court heard that Mr Blake joined the Metropolitan Police in 2008 and applied to be a firearms officer in 2015.
“It struck me as a challenging role with a challenging course. It was a very good course and a thoroughly good job. Best job in Metropolitan Police, working with the best colleagues,” he said.
Jurors previously heard Mr Kaba was shot in the forehead at 22:07 as he sat in the driver’s seat of an Audi car which had been linked to a gun incident in Brixton the night before.
Moments before, he had tried to get away by driving forward and then reversing into a police car which had blocked him in.
The jury was told police had been following Mr Kaba because the Audi car he was driving had been linked to a shooting in Brixton the night before.
