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>> "probably not nearly enough training" Any evidence of this at all? Aren't UK officers that carry those kind of weapons specifically trained to use them? >>
by k-mcgrady 10y ago
>> "probably not nearly enough training"
Any evidence of this at all? Aren't UK officers that carry those kind of weapons specifically trained to use them?
>> "in London there is no shortage of cops wandering around with AR15s and MP7s"
Where? In airports maybe but it is very rare to see them on the streets. I don't know what area of London you're in but I can't remember the last time I saw one besides at a large public event.
- wrong_variable 10y agoI have seen a few with AR15s near South Kensington Station. Got really scared since in my head they could just point it towards me and press a button to end my life in a really painful way.
- zelos 10y agoAren't the armed police around there because of all the embassies, Kensington Palace etc?
- evgen 10y agoThere are embassies in the area, but Kensington Palace is nowhere near the South Kensington station. The borough of Kensington & Chelsea is a somewhat elongated rectangle with the palace on the northern end at Hyde Park and the south end at the Thames.
- evgen 10y agoMy daughter's school is right near there so I am familiar with their presence. The reason you see them around is the nearby Lycée Français Charles De Gaulle and a few embassies like Yemen, Venezuela, etc. They are not there often, and usually only when there is terrorist activity in France.
- michaelt 10y agoWhere? In airports maybe but it is very rare to see them on the streets. Depends how often you go past things that have guards. For example Winfield House [1], American embassy [2], Israeli embassy [3] and places like that. Sometimes in the larger train stations too. Armed guards seem most visible outside second-rank attack targets; places like Downing Street, the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace usually have oodles of unarmed police, presumably to deal with all the tourists. Presumably there are armed police somewhere nearby, although I couldn't see any on Street View. [1] https://goo.gl/maps/uti8AGqanMU2 https://goo.gl/maps/uti8AGqanMU2 [2] https://goo.gl/maps/oZK9Dcr4xQr https://goo.gl/maps/oZK9Dcr4xQr [3] https://goo.gl/maps/o3heh5wFFoE2 https://goo.gl/maps/o3heh5wFFoE2
- k-mcgrady 10y agoI understand that they are common around potential target locations but OP made it sound like you see them all over the place.
- DanBC 10y ago> Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace has fully armed well trained soldiers. They probably don't need armed police. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Guard
- evgen 10y agoIt is also less than three blocks from the barracks of the foot guard and of the horse guard barracks. An event at the palace would draw at least a company of well-armed and well-trained soldiers in minutes.