JBG wrote:
Also in this day and age British police services must be armed. And not with revolvers either.
Jonathan
AFAIK most of the Metropolitan forces are, but I'm not sure. If they are armed they most likely use Glocks or other H&K pistol.
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Certain parts of the police force are armed. In peacetime and in @ Trained Firearms Officers with Armed Response Units are armed; as Jean Charles de Menezes will attest. In the TTW phase, I think not only would many more police be seconded to armed response units, but officers on the beat who are proficient with firearms would be issued them. IIRC in the first few chaps. of TLW there is a scene when two police officers in Scotland shut a road and they are armed with 'Glocks'. For more accurate information than my memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_unit and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_Firearms_Command There is an interesting quote in the first article: one police force has only had to use a weapon once in its entire history. A few Bones seconded to the RAF and kitted out with RAF roundels? Wouldn't that make life interesting for Soviet intelligence! That would be wonderful. Probably a 'geekgasm' 
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Posts: 29 (16-May-2008 11:18:03) |
I think we have seen some examples of what the Police would be doing in the TTW phase over the last few days.
Rangers fans letting themselves down, and the British Police showing the Italian Police how you deal with fans. But seriously, as a football fan, Rangers should be sanctioned in some way because this is awful. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7402817.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7402702.stm
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Posts: 59 (16-May-2008 13:42:43) |
Aren't all British cops proficient with at least one kind of firearm? I thought the days of the unarmed bobby were over.
The scene where the (armed) parachutist surrenders to an unarmed policeman reminds me of a movie, was it "Battle of Britain"? With regards to hooligans; I wouldn't mind them being crucified. It's a huge problem here in the Netherlands. |
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flyingdutchman1980 wrote: I have seen BoB multiple times ( at least 10 ) and I can't recall such a scene. However there is a scene where a German Flyer surrenders to a peasant with a pitchfork.
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Another great chapter, Jan!! Those poor people in that section of town never really knew what hit them. Loved the TV station scene. Sounds just like the rumor
mogering ratings hungry morons we have around here....
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With regards to hooligans; I wouldn't mind them being crucified. It's a huge problem here in the Netherlands. We've just about sorted it I think; latest news is that most of the Rangers 'fans' involved were not fans, rather they had gone to the game specially to attack the Zenit fans, who have a bit of a reputation so I hear. It wasn't helped by a big screen that was meant to be transmitting the match breaking down. With 10k+ well oiled Scots and no way of seeing the match you are asking for trouble, especially when you had promised them big screens. Of course, theres no excuse, but there are extenuating circumstances. The 'English Disease' has well and truly now become a 'Mainland Europe Disease': Italy and Holland especially I believe.
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I have seen BoB multiple times ( at least 10 ) and I can't recall such a scene. However there is a scene where a German
Flyer surrenders to a peasant with a pitchfork.
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With 10k+ well oiled Scots and no way of seeing the match you are asking for trouble, especially when you had promised them big screens. Of course,
theres no excuse, but there are extenuating circumstances.
What's really irritating is that hooliganism has never been the problem in Scotland that it has been elsewhere. The Tartan Army is famous for its good behaviour, for example. I can understand being upset, but chasing the police down a street and giving one a good kicking is inexcusable. However there is a scene where a German Flyer surrenders to a peasant with a pitchfork. We've not had peasants in the UK for a very long time, it is a Polish pilot, btw. 
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Posts: 60 (16-May-2008 17:29:33) |
trekaddict wrote: I now recall the Polish pilot in BoB, but I can't seem to remember which (old war)movie had a German pilot surrendering to an unarmed cop walking his
beat through a mostly destroyed street in Londen. My google-fu isn't strong today either since I can't find it.
Hooliganism strangely enough only really started here some 10ish years ago, after the hooligans in the UK were put back under control. Really impressive how during games in the UK the spectators are only a meter away from the field without fences of 3 m high. |
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