Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:00 PM BST

LONDON (Reuters) - Two police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station last year will return to operational duties, London police said on Friday.

The firearms officers had faced restrictions on their roles after Jean Charles de Menezes was controversially shot dead last July by officers who suspected he was a suicide bomber.

According to the BBC, the Independent Police Complaints Commission which investigated the case recommended that the two officers should face criminal charges. But earlier this month prosecutors decided to take no action.

The Crown Prosecution Service said evidence supported the police officers' claims that they had genuinely believed de Menezes was a suicide bomber.

Following that decision, Scotland Yard said both officers would now resume full operational duties.

"This case has been considered in line with every case of this nature and decisions are made on a case-by-case basis," a police statement said.

However, the family of de Menezes were "very upset" by the decision, according to Asad Rehman, a spokesman for the Justice4Jean campaign.

"I think it's a very, very premature decision," Rehman told Sky News. "There are many, many outstanding questions."

The 27-year-old Brazilian electrician was shot seven times in the head after he boarded a train at Stockwell station.

Police were on high alert after four suicide bombers killed 52 people on three underground trains and a bus two weeks earlier, while detectives say a copycat attack the day before the shooting only failed because the bombs failed to detonate.

The circumstances surrounding the incident still remain a hotly disputed issue. London police chief Ian Blair has been heavily criticised and is still facing calls for his resignation over the blunder.

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