Six Metropolitan Police officers, including four from Bromley, have been cleared of gross misconduct over the death of Olaseni Lewis.

Mr Lewis, 23, died in 2010, after being restrained by police at Bethlem Royal Hospital in Beckenham.

Sergeant Simon Smith, based at Bromley, PC Michael Aldridge, based at Protected Security Operations, PC Stephen Boyle, based at Bromley, Detective Constable Laura Curran, based at Bromley, PC Ian Simpson, based at Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection and PC James Smith, based at Bromley attended the hearing the Met Police hearing.

They went to answer allegations that their actions were a breach of the Met's Standards of Professional Behaviour.

The hearing ruled today (October 6) that the restraint of Mr Lewis was "necessary, proportionate and reasonable".

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Martin, in charge of the Professionalism portfolio, said:"Our sympathies remain with the family and friends of Mr Lewis.

"I would take this opportunity to repeat on behalf of the Met that we are sorry for their loss, and the circumstances in which Mr Lewis died.

"The actions of the officers have now been subject to two independent investigations, an inquest and a misconduct hearing.

"I have no doubt that each of those officers set out that day to do their very best and to do all they could to help.

"It is important that a panel - entirely independent from the Met - considered if those officers had breached police standards of professional behaviour, as directed by the IPCC. This also allowed Mr Lewis' family to hear about the full circumstances of what happened that day.

"The outcome of the Coroner's inquest raised a number of important issues for the MPS, and policing nationally, to consider in relation to restraint techniques and training.

"I would reassure Mr Lewis' family that over the seven years that have passed since Mr Lewis died, the way in which the Met would respond to someone in mental health crisis in a medical institute has fundamentally changed."

In May this year an inquest at Croydon Coroner's Court found that 'unnecessary and unreasonable' excessive force 'on the balance of probability' contributed to Mr Lewis' death.

Speaking after the inquest, Conrad Lewis, Olaseni’s father, said: “We want to see some changes in the system, and the mental system and the police and the way they are trained.

“When you go to the police or hospital for help you don’t expect them to end up dead.

“Let his memory mean something by changing the system."