No but if I have a car I’d like to go out for a weekend to mountains in the summer and just sleep in the back SAT-SUN without needing a tent. Or put a bike into the back and drive couple of hours out of Prague in any direction to cycle - without needing to put it on the roof.
CLK is not that much of a family car though 
A cop in a car thought he might have heard a gunshot coming somewhere from a park not far from my flat…
SWAT remained in their cars while the “normal” cops that are on the pictures suited up and combed the park and found… nothing.
I always knew that the helicopters have night vision but had no idea that also the normal coppers have them too. Good to know I guess.
Good to see they learned their lesson from Uherský Brod.
Seems like a huge over reaction not to mention a big waste of tax payer money to me.
Nice to see this has turned from the land of the free to the land of agree with me or I’ll throw your ass in jail. Gays are easily the most annoying in your face minority out there and he fact that you can be thrown in jail for not marrying gays is fucking ridiculous.
helicopter overhead guiding the ground units on to any suspicions heat signatures
this one is the best just slaughters the black community’s mind set
Well, they are on the shift anyways so unless they are urgently needed elsewhere they’d be on the job and paid even if they sat on their asses in the station. Maybe apart from the heli fuel I’d say that there were no real extra costs.
At the same time it shows to any “bad elements” in the society that no shit will be tolerated. Which is in my opinion the main reason why after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia there were quite a few mafia killings/shootouts on the streets of Slovakia and next-to-none in the Czech Republic.
Yeah that has been for ages but I had no idea that the coppers on the ground have night vision too and use it while combing the park.
they dont have night vision on in any of the pictures . it would be mounted on their helmets already if they intended to use night vision
I am aware that they don’t have it on the pictures, but still, they do have it.
couple of years back now (just before london olympics ) we had a hostage scare in central london . with a guy who walked into an office with gas cannisters strapped to him and a blow torch (no guns ) and threatened to blow himself up and took 4 hostages this was our police response .
normal armed police
a "specialist " armed response team . but more likely to be the counter terrorism unit of the SAS (CRW)
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article7685218.ece/alternates/w620/IA28-14-Seige.jpg
the man was eventually talked down . but being just before the olympics the police were on very high alert so everything was an over ration plus it serves as a good indication of whether we were prepared . correctly.
ohh and he did all this because he failed a Heavy goods vehicle training course and wanted his money back.
What is the normal response time for this type of cavalry to arrive in UK? It seems that with Lee Rigby it was 14 minutes in London before first armed cop arrived, so what is the response time in other areas of the country? An hour?
greatly depends on the call they receive . lee rigby was a major fuck up in the control centre side of things on exactly what was going on . so many different calls all differing in description of how serious it was . since then its been sorted a great deal however i imagine it will happen again in the future .
response times differ depending on where you are of course . some sleepy village in the country isnt going to have the same armed coverage as the centre of london . woolwhich isnt the centre of london by the way.
armed response is normally less than 5 minutes but of course like any nation there are exceptions where its much longer .
the response seen in the picture would of been over a long period as it was a siege . so it would of been attended by a normal armed response who would of then radioed back that it was a hostage situation with a man threatening to blow himself up . and then of course the QRF force for such incidents would of been put into action and Special forces right away informed (which is protocol for any hostage situation ) and in this case clearly asked to attend .
the regular armed police you see in the picture carry that kit in there cars at all times anyway
Still you don’t think its a bit much? I mean someone thought they heard a gun shot and they have the entire police force there? Are police there not armed well enough to dealt with gun men?.
Thats much more understandable.
Jesus they could have killed 10 other people in the time it took for police to show. Although that sounds similar to what the police did at Columbine. The police would just cover every corner of the building trapping the shooters in but then everyone else would trapped as well. But since Virginia tech the cops run in the building when theres an active shooter.
yes of course . but the first calls the police recieved were simply a man has been hit by a car . then a man was being attacked . some were saying he was just being beaten up other were saying he was being cut up . so it was a mass confusion .
the area he was killed is to put it straight a fucking shit hole . its not central london its more of a suburb . so its not somewhere you would expect a terror attack or mass shooting . could say that makes it the perfect target then .
had the calls all came in saying there was a gunmen shooting people the response would of been much much quicker . but clearly a good number of people can be killed in say 10 minutes
it is way too much here if that happened it really wouldnt get much of a response apart from a patrol car as it could be hunters , farmers etc might not of been a gun shot at all
Same as the average cop has an m16 or an m4 here.
holy damn i think i came …twice
Most units now carry M4s and minor swat gear in their trunks.
I have even heard stories (Brother is Law enforcement) of officers bringing personal weapons like custom AR15s.
Well had they had anything else to do, I’d agree. But given the fact that these are rapid response units and riot unit, they are most of the time on stand by. I am sure that had it been during a day and they were at the other part of the town at a football game, the level of response would have been different.
[Rapid Response Unit - usually three cops in a squad car with heavy gear driving around]
[Riot Unit - usually minibuses with 7 cops for each car waiting at central station in larger cities to be called out]
[neither of these are SWAT]
But this being park not far from the city center I’d say well done. Comb the park and find out what’s up. Nobody’s hurt by that. On the other hand if just a unit in patrol car put on their bullet proof vest, took out their Scorpion/MP7/HK G36 (that is what most police cars here have instead of your M16s), and had there really been some shooter, they would be coming somewhere they don’t know on someone who would see them coming.
Shootouts with police here don’t happen exactly because the response is mounted on the level that it makes no sense for the crook to shoot on cops.
Many people hunt in London parks at nights?
