RE: UK Cop visits Detroit
January 19, 2016 at 8:49 am
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2016 at 8:52 am by Mr Greene.)
(January 18, 2016 at 6:12 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I was under the impression that the UK had armed response units? Their everyday experience probably doesn't differ much from a US gang unit's experience.
Each police force does maintain an ARU, (At one point they were called Fire Arms Response Teams until someone shouted the acronym across the radio...)
These generally come down to a single car covering the entire forces area of operations. eg. for North Wales Police that's all the way from Chester to the Gower Peninsular.
City forces tend to have more units available for obvious reasons.
AFAIAK British police have never been routinely equipped with firearms since they were formed in the 19th century.
Everyday experience; I'd struggle to think of anywhere on mainland Britain where you'd get that sort of experience, parts of Glasgow at a push.
Northern Ireland of course is an entirely different kettle of fish.
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