Original Article Aug 20, 3:15 PM EDT London Police Keep Shoot-To-Kill Policy By THOMAS WAGNER Associated Press Writer LONDON (AP) -- London police said Saturday they made only minor changes to their directive on the use of deadly force after killing an innocent man mistaken for a terrorist, and they also denied a published report that they offered $1 million to the victim's family. "There has been a review. The police have reviewed the strategy and we have made one or two small changes, but the operation remains essentially the same," said a police spokeswoman who declined to give her name because of police policy. She also would not discuss details of the changes in Operation Kratos, the force's name for what British media call a "shoot-to-kill" policy. The review followed the July 22 killing of a Brazilian man, Jean Charles de Menezes, 27, who was wrongly suspected of being a suicide terrorist. The Daily Mail newspaper reported Saturday that a senior police officer made an initial offer of compensation to Menezes' family during a visit to Brazil two weeks ago. The report, citing Menezes' family, said the amount was $1 million. Police denied that report. "The only discussions we have had so far with the family of Jean Charles de Menezes have been about initial expenses and we strongly refute any suggestion that a figure anywhere in the region of $1 million has been offered as compensation," the force said in a statement Saturday. Sir Ian Blair, who apologized for the mistaken killing, has denied any police cover-up or trying to block the Independent Police Complaints Commission's ongoing investigation of the shooting. Blair said he did not resist the investigation but rather sought advice from the Home Office on how secret intelligence would be dealt with, given that the police complaints commission had a duty to disclose all its findings to the victim's family. "What I actually said was we have a unique situation here. At that stage I, and my officers, thought the dead man was a suicide bomber," Blair said in an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio. "We are in the middle of the biggest counterterrorism operation, is it wise to bring another set of investigators into the middle of that?" Blair told the BBC on Friday that police took responsibility for Menezes' death, but he said that, while tragic, it was just one death out of 57 - including the four suicide bombers involved in the July 7 attacks on three subway trains and a double-decker bus. "The context here is the largest criminal inquiry in English history with 52 innocent victims dead. ... We can't let that one tragic death outweigh all others," he said. Recently leaked documents from the complaints commission investigation into Menezes' killing appear to contradict original statements by police that the Brazilian was behaving suspiciously before being shot. On July 22, Blair told journalists that Menezes failed to obey instructions from the surveillance police who were following him as a suspected suicide bomber. In the heightened state of anxiety after the earlier terrorist attacks, witnesses reported that Menezes was wearing a heavy padded coat and jumped over ticket barriers at Stockwell subway station before bolting toward a train. The Metropolitan Police never contradicted those claims. However, the documents leaked to ITV News suggest that Menezes, an electrician, walked casually into the subway station and was wearing a light denim jacket. Brazil's government said it was "outraged" by the reports about Menezes' killing and said it would send two officials to Britain to meet with police and the commission investigating the killing.