“And if we catch them, we have extensive training in physical combat, so we subdue them.”
This is bs for a start. I know several ex and serving bobbies from the neighbouring Lancashire Constabulary and they have told me that their ‘physical combat’ training is a joke. They get a two day course in how to tackle and restrain a suspect every six months. I do more hours of martial arts training every week than they do in a year, and I still wouldn’t be cocky about taking on a 15 stone six foot+ suspect who didn’t want to go quietly.
He is also incorrect about an English bobby having powers of arrest all over the country. His warrant card only covers England and Wales, if he went to Scotland or Northern Ireland, he’d have no more arrest powers than that of an ordinary citizen.
The Irish have the Garda (sp?) and do they operate essentially the same as the bobbies?
#13 British Bobby: Stop thief or I will say Stop again.