Posted by: mark
Street crime UK - 04/22/05 04:02 PM
In the UK we have a TV series “ street crime UK”
It is a fly on the wall series that has a camera man following police officers around Britain’s city centres, filming them deal with the drunken violence that is plaguing our country.
It is very explicit with nothing beeped or edited, including the violence.
My point is this, all I see is Police officers fully equipped and supposedly training in defensive skills, LOOK TOTAL MUPPETS.
1 copper just got 4 punches strike him, he had plenty of warning, but went into the situation with his arms behind his back, he just stood and got punched.
His 3 colleagues just froze, total Balls up.
After wards he is seen close up on camera and complaining about his “facial injuries”…err…. there weren’t any!!
So was this such a “shock” to him that he “whited out”? if so what the hell is this coppers defensive skills training based on.
Another time, it is ludicrous to see 5 coppers NOT able to control 1 medium sized person.
They just look like total amateurs, no skills what so ever.
I served in the police and have worked for many years in the private security industry.
I hope I never looked as rubbish as these Coppers,.
It really is worth a look guys, real world violence etc.. good to watch the signs of escalation and wonder if we would do better?
Very different to the USA programs COPS, where EVERYONE is just question/detained at gun point, seems to work rather well!!!!
I know of 2 UK copper that post here Lea and Cato, do you watch this guys and cringe like I do?
Regards
mark
It is a fly on the wall series that has a camera man following police officers around Britain’s city centres, filming them deal with the drunken violence that is plaguing our country.
It is very explicit with nothing beeped or edited, including the violence.
My point is this, all I see is Police officers fully equipped and supposedly training in defensive skills, LOOK TOTAL MUPPETS.
1 copper just got 4 punches strike him, he had plenty of warning, but went into the situation with his arms behind his back, he just stood and got punched.
His 3 colleagues just froze, total Balls up.
After wards he is seen close up on camera and complaining about his “facial injuries”…err…. there weren’t any!!
So was this such a “shock” to him that he “whited out”? if so what the hell is this coppers defensive skills training based on.
Another time, it is ludicrous to see 5 coppers NOT able to control 1 medium sized person.
They just look like total amateurs, no skills what so ever.
I served in the police and have worked for many years in the private security industry.
I hope I never looked as rubbish as these Coppers,.
It really is worth a look guys, real world violence etc.. good to watch the signs of escalation and wonder if we would do better?
Very different to the USA programs COPS, where EVERYONE is just question/detained at gun point, seems to work rather well!!!!
I know of 2 UK copper that post here Lea and Cato, do you watch this guys and cringe like I do?
Regards
mark