http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19641398
An interesting read, which also provides some background to the current situation. Interestingly, according to a 2004 poll, 47% of the public support the police being routinely armed. According to a 2006 poll, 82% of police officers opposed...
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Originally Posted by Itshim
Just a thought have "they" now stated they were shot- last heard talk of killed by a grenade. If so you really have little chance, even with a gun of winning that "fight"
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The BBC now says 'gun and grenade attack', so it's not clear.
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Originally Posted by Chris
"Policing by consent" means running the operation in a way that causes the public to co-operate because the public agrees with and supports the police and not because they have at the back of their minds that they might face violence, or the threat of it, if they do not.
An observation on how "Policing by consent" was seen to have applied during the recent Games in London:
http://www.acpo.police.uk/ThePoliceC...rdfromSHO.aspx |
I think that the point that Will and I are making is that it's not impossible for an armed police force to 'police by consent'. It really isn't the case that most continental police forces consist of gun toting idiots that command no respect from the public other than through the fact that they carry a firearm.