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Re: "Major Incident" in London
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07/29/05 05:04 AM
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Originally posted by Don Cardi: Maybe one of our British friends here can give me the answer to something that I've been wondering about.
Isn't it true that the police in your country never carried guns? And is it true that only after the July 7th attacks that they started to carry guns? Were these "regular" policeman who didn;t carry guns before or were these "special" forces that always carried guns?
Don Cardi  DC, the regular British police do not carry arms as a matter of course. However of course there are certain units of the police force who are trained for situations where the use of arms might be necessary e.g. terrorist situation, hostage taking etc. The guys in the shooting of the Brazilian were probably special "undercover" type cops. However since 07/07 a large number of the Transport Police who look after the underground system, have been armed specifically to deal with the current threat. BTW it appears the guy who was shot was staying in Britain on an out of date visa...probably why he ran..thought it was immigration?
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Re: "Major Incident" in London
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07/29/05 06:49 AM
07/29/05 06:49 AM
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And to add to what Senza Mama has said. The regular police patrolling the streets (before 07/07) didn't carry guns but armed response units would be readily available at the nearest station. I live in a relatively small town of 60-70,000 and I never knew we had armed response units until about 4/5 years ago when someone I knew was playing with a toy gun in a public place. I doubt he'd repeat that again. Originally posted by Bella Mafia UK:
MaryCas,
The Police here are very measured about what they tell us - they do let us know what is going on, but only after a certain amount of time has passed and so as to not jeapodize the investigation. A fair amount of the info that we get in the media is from 'unconfirmed' sauces - and we normally hear a few different versions of the story before the truth comes out.
I think that the US news agencies sometimes give out more information than our own - for example, there were a number of photgraphs released yesterday from abc news that the UK networks bourght off them. You're right. I've been watching the US news stations (mainly Fox) for a number of years now and when something big like what has happened recently it's easier to get a better understanding by flicking through the channels. The pictures which were on pretty much every newspaper cover yesterday were not suppossed to be released to us after highest of police requests but like you said ABC ran them and sold them.
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