Routine armed police units for London streets

[konik]

The prospect of an armed police service moved a step closer yesterday when Scotland Yard announced the formation of a new firearms unit that will routinely patrol gun crime hotspots in London.

The team is drawn from the CO19, the Metropolitan Police specialist firearms unit, members of which shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station after mistaking him for a suicide bomber in 2005.

The armed patrols are being deployed after a dramatic rise in gun crime. They will target key areas in North London, where Turkish gangs are engaged in a bloody turf war, and south of the Thames, where gangland shooting incidents have soared . . . . . . . . .

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6886192.ece

[cpfc12]

The prospect of an armed police service moved a step closer yesterday when Scotland Yard announced the formation of a new firearms unit that will routinely patrol gun crime hotspots in London.

The team is drawn from the CO19, the Metropolitan Police specialist firearms unit, members of which shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell Tube station after mistaking him for a suicide bomber in 2005.

The armed patrols are being deployed after a dramatic rise in gun crime. They will target key areas in North London, where Turkish gangs are engaged in a bloody turf war, and south of the Thames, where gangland shooting incidents have soared . . . . . . . . .

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6886192.ece

This is not new news, they have been doing it in notting hill and brixton since the 90s nottingham, and st pauls in bristol too
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2734997.stm

[cpfc12]

I don't know what to make of it all really, i know for a fact that there are alot of shootings in london, the majority go underreported.
But like i said this really isn't new news, yes sure in the last decade you have had armed police in central london outside houses of parliament and downing street, but i do remember in brixton in the 90s when gun crime was really kicking off you had armed police patrolling the streets on foot.

[decim]

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