Bag's Rants

Things will get more interesting in this area soon.

Seems that some GM Police officers are suing the force for a botched raid that resulted in an officers death. Read more here.

I envisage that it won't be long before they insist on so many things before they go into action that things like this become more commonplace. It is where a police force waited for hours while a gunman killed the victims until they felt it was 'safe'.

I can see it now.

Hostage in House : Help us. He is contesting his CSA payments.
SO19 Officer : Our 20 guys armed with H&K MP5's can't go in because the hostage taker has a plastic fork and our H&S process doesn't deal with plastic forks. We are looking to see if it can be treated as a plastic knife or a metal fork. A risk analysis is being scheduled as we speak.
Hostage in House : I'll see if I can get the fork off him.
SO19 Officer : We won't have any vigilante action on my watch. I'll get an ASBO on you for threatening behavior. Leave it to the professionals.
Two weeks later.
SO19 Officer : Guys time to go in. The analysts think the hostage taker has starved to death. Let's storm the building and free the hostages.
Building stormed. Hostage taker, barely alive, gets shot in head five times. Hostages have starved to death.
SO19 Officer : There was nothing else we could have done. We followed the book. Let's go to the pub. The world is a much safer place that hostage taker has died.

It may sound far fetched now but wait till the reports come out. All except the 7th July one of course.

posted by Bag @ 12:17 pm