by Justin Davenport Crime Correspondent
Posted on 01/18/2002 7:27:36 AM PST by white trash redneck
Armour for north London police
by Justin Davenport Crime Correspondent
Scotland Yard has ordered police in north London to wear bullet-proof vests at all times because of soaring gun crime - the first time such an order has been made in mainland Britain.
Officers in Haringey have been told protective armour should be worn on the streets even on routine patrols after a dramatic rise in the number of firearms offences.
In the past 12 weeks there were 300 emergency calls in Haringey in relation to alleged firearms, 109 of these resulted in evidence of guns being used or seen.
Bob Elder, chairman of the Police Federation's constables' branch, who is based at Haringey, said: "My colleagues are increasingly worried. In Haringey there are 999 calls about firearms activity on an almost daily basis.
"There is a heightened awareness of firearms issues in boroughs such as Haringey and Hackney and there is now a directive that officers should wear body armour on operational duty as a health and safety issue.
"We have pretty strong gun laws in this country but they do not seem to be having any effect."
At present, officers in the Met are not obliged to wear body armour except at times of greater risk. In practice more and more officers are opting to wear it.
The news comes as police seized a deadly Mac 10 submachine gun and uncovered a firearms factory in Haringey at the weekend.
The US-made Mac 10, capable of firing 20 rounds a second, was seized in a raid on a flat in Bounds Green. Police also found 100 rounds of ammunition. Two men aged 21 have been charged with firearms offences.
In a separate operation police found what they described as a firearms "reactivation" factory in Tottenham. In a flat in Ingleborough Court police found vices, metal gun barrels and other weapons-making paraphernalia.
Haringey police are working closely with the Operation Trident squad which investigates gangsters in the crack cocaine trade.
Borough police commander Stephen James said: "I am delighted by the success of these operations, which have disrupted the access to firearms by criminals. I know the use and recovery of firearms in London is now almost routine."
More police are armed than you would think, about a decade or more so ago, it was only a specialist unit called the blue berets today, each station has a armed backup force.
A female friend of mine is in the Blue Berets she was on one of the front pages.
She is only a small little thing but tough as old boots, ex army.
Cheers Tony
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
Just kidding. You can't buy guns in England (and, I know, don't want to anyway and it's all part of the war on drugs), but can you legally buy a kevlar vest, or are these reserved to government agents too?
Well what it is, is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, snort what sorry fell asleep there, what I mean to say is zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Sorry fell asleep again.
Probably because we have this debate twice a week, and each time British freepers like myself come on to thiszzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Snigger fell asleep again.
Oh bollox who cares what ever you write we ignore and what ever we write you ignore, and it ends with us Brit freepers dominating the thread and telling yank jokes.
Cheers Tony
The Brits are just now figuring this out? I thought Europeans were supposed to be so much smarter, and so much more sophisticated than us Yanks? You're on the right track Brits! More Guns= Less Crime
I think you can, one of my mates also an ex serviceman para.
Well he had a real nasty job, hunting down real dangerous mental patients who had absconded.
These were real nutters who tried to stab him, so he got one of these vests but I cant remember if it was legal or illegal.
Cheers Tony
CHEERS MATE!
I agree.
But lets turn this around, lets say that instead of a revolution you left the empire peacefully, lets say you never had the second amendment, and you never had a need for guns before just like Britain.
Lets say after a long period of unarmed criminals suddenly due to drug wars the criminals suddenly started to arm them self’s.
How soon would your establishment react in allowing civilians to arm them self’s.
Think carefully and think everything you know about governments before you answer this.
Cheers Tony
LOL I know is my face red or what I stumbled in onto this thread too early.
Cheers Tony
BTW, could you tell us a yank joke?
He fought them of , luckily he was a very big guy, he said when he saw the size of the ahem, it helped him to redouble his efforts to escape.
Cheers Tony
Paging jj
Unless he is down the pub already it being Friday and all that.
Cheers Tony
Gee. You mean criminals don't obey the law??? I'm *SHOCKED*, simply SHOCKED, I tell you! Where are my smelling salts...?
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