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Police State Haringey

Nooooooooooooo.............. | 21.11.2002 17:16

Haringey policed by armed officers brandishing sub machine guns.

"This is a very deliberate strategy to provide a visible re-assurance to people in Haringey and to act as a deterrent against armed criminals. This sort of routine deployment to an area is exceptional but we have to return Haringey to normality as soon as possible."

(Military police in body armour with sub-machine guns is NORMAL?)

"Armed officers are being asked to deploy from their vehicles to show there is a visible deterrent on the streets and to demonstrate to people that there are armed officers in this area."

Nooooooooooooo..............
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Comments

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Rivers of blood

21.11.2002 17:45

No... I'm still not a racist... honest... not yet anyway...

Enoch

murders

21.11.2002 18:26

The number of people robbed of personal property at gunpoint rose by 53 per cent in the Metropolitan Police area between April and November last year, compared to the same period in 2000, a rise from 435 victims to 667.

sceptic

inaccurate waffle

21.11.2002 19:03

Despite being referred to in the article as machine guns, METPOL issued MP5 carbines are engineered so they are only firable in a semi automatic mode. NO three round or full auto for met lads unfortunately. This means that the gun discharges one round per squeeze of the trigger.

As for 'since when are armed military police on patrol' or whatever was said... this is again a semi moronic comment, as the armed officers are civilian police officers.

You really can't expect us to not arm some of our police when you have a high number of armed villains walking around butchering each other and robbing people at gunpoint in the street.

voice of reason

how moronic?

21.11.2002 19:55

I suggest "civillian police officers' is a contradiction. The armed officers in London are Met Police. (There is a MoD Constabulary of Police, and a seperate Military Police - both of these have limited jurisdiction over civiliians).
Note the quote about deploying from their vehicles. These armed officers have been around for years - they just normally don't flash their guns around unless there's a suspected armed criminal in the area.
By getting them to walk around a bit, the 'visible presence' is supposed to convey the idea that 'something is being done'. Given they have a track record in shooting unarmed suspects, not everyone will be 'reassured'.

bobby

And why are there lots of cops there....

21.11.2002 20:30

cos for example in green lanes theres also a police incident hq vehicle, and a phorensic tent still in the street aftrer a ruck between rival gangs ended in one dead and several hospitalised

the area is very mixed with many races, sometimes there is tension, this increases if someones murdered and more so if drug money is involved

some people do feel safer others do not

what would you do after such a murder

i know for certain after some of the incidents of the last year and a half or so that if the police had not flooded the area then there would have been many more injured and maybe more dead

does not mean i like the situation, thats just how it is

norf

better get used to it

21.11.2002 21:48

...used to it as intended, as this will be a common sight nationwide in the next few years, when global warfare, engineered economic collapse, the enforcement of the rampant New Labour Order sheaves of repressive legislation, comes into play against the dissenters
then the target of those guns will be you

pigs can sleep in beds...

22.11.2002 04:50

fact of the matter is....
do you really trust in the good judgement of the police. i mean, what kind of pshycological profile does it take to want to tell people what to do, and get paid badly for it.
beat the shit out of people etc.

nah, i prefer chaos. if human being have been able to survive through the ages, why the fuck do you need police anyway.

take care of yourself.
if you dont like the area, go somewhere else.
get streetwise, whatever. just be responsible for your own actions. thats the way life is. and should be.

sahlomee

sahlomee

22.11.2002 13:09

sahlomee, you might beleive in such chaotic anarchism now, but if society does start to collapse, the police(essentially 'peace officers' they are there to keep the peace, not to cause breaches of it)will be the only body there willing to fight for your defence.

the enforcer

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