POLICING THE HEDGEROWS
Jul 09, 2020
4 minutes
I was driving to work to start an afternoon shift whilst listening on my car radio to the incoming news reports on 9/11. As I walked into the crew room, on the small portable television I could see the horrors of the terrorist attack on the twin towers unfolding on the news channel. It was only two days earlier that I had started working on a police armed response unit, and I thought to myself: “This could be interesting.”
From that day on the police use of firearms changed to provide an effective response to terrorist attacks, further accelerated by the events of 7/7. My initial training was akin to an armed
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