Re: More station photography woes (& police searching)


David Hansen wrote:
> On 8 Jan 2006 11:37:14 -0800 someone who may be
> jonporter1052@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote this:-
>
> >Police officers now regularly wear ski-mask type flameproof masks
> >on such operations as a direct result of this and a couple of other
> >cases.
>
> And as a result look like a gang of thugs and are difficult to
> identify when they do something wrong. Convenient for them, but not
> their victims. As Home Secretaries are fond of saying, if they have
> nothing to fear then why hide their faces.
>
>
Life's a bitch isn't it David. I couldn't give a toss what I looked
like as long as it was enough to scare the *** out of a possibly armed
suspect, especially if I was the first of a raid team going in. It's
designed to intimidate, as well as offer protection. They do as they
are told and no one gets hurt. In answer to an earlier question it was
Reading. Zinzan Street. The person being arrested was a "Bedsit Baron"
of some notoriety, suspected of a couple of murders and maimings of
tenants. He was a known violent phycopath and had a family with similar
tendencies living in Oxfordshire, right opposite my Sister and her
family and around the corner from my parents. Hence I did not want my
picture splashed all over the cover of the local rag.
Since my family now lives abroad, and most of the Darlows are locked up
or dead it's academic now. As for the photographer he's still around,
but get's annoyed with the new Tetra system as he cannot eavesdrop
anymore. We suspected he used to get such info illegally from the radio
and proved it when he drove from Reading to Slough at 3am to try and
photograph another armed raid when we played tapes from an earlier
incident over the specific channel we thought he would monitor. Point
proved we changed procedures and frequencies.

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