Cop strikes woman at G20 on video

[ViolentPanda]

Are they getting training from the military maybe? They're certainly acting as though they'd taken lessons in public order policing from the Para. I guess we should be glad that they aren't issued with bayonets eh?

There's certainly been an increase in inter-service security exercises and training post-"9/11", and we know, for example, that army recon and surveillance elements were involved in the de Menezes fiasco. I suspect that the aggressive "public order" policing is all their own work though, an attempt to look 'ard to their international colleagues.
Interestingly enough, there was a CRS dude on the R4 news earlier, saying as how, from the footage of the protest on 1/4 and the vigil for Mr. Tomlinson, our "riot police" were extremely ill-disciplined.

The way the cops who repeatedly shot the unfortunate Mr Menezes in the face had evidently adopted the SAS/IDF approach displayed at Gibraltar but added a bunch of typical rozzer incompetence (at least on that occasion the SAS had the sense to execute people who were actually in the IRA, even if they weren't armed or dangerous at the time of their death, rather than some random bystander)

Of course, many of the police may not have had either the "baptism of fire" or the training that soldiers might, so fuck-ups would appear to be more likely. You join the army knowing that at the last your job boils down to "kill and/or be killed". I don't believe that most policemen have that in mind at all when they join a police service.

I'd be willing to bet that during the Thatcher era a whole bunch of military riot instigation/control and coercion techniques were passed on to the cops that have continued to affect their training and doctrine to this day.

Thatcher and before. Kitson and his contemporaries were widely read in the 60s and 70s by people with an interest in provocation and control.

 

[winjer]

Re The Daily Fail, you should read their comments boards from before the G20 scandal. Their readers hate the cops.

Only Labour's cops though.

 

[Corax]

CRS?

All I can come up with is Child Rebel Soldier. Although they might have interviewed Pharrel or Kanye about it, I think it's unlikely....

 

[winjer]

French riot squad, Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité.

 

[Corax]

French riot squad, Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité.

Ah, thanks.

My second best guess was Consumer Recreation Services, but "The Game" was just a film... or was it?

 

[lostexpectation]

Yes. It is extremely difficult to restrain one's anger in the face of it. Still, we must.

yeah having been in a couple of slightly similar situations, (well only one police riot).

i actually stopped going to protests becuase I once didn't restrain my 'dreadanger', which I verbally lost it at some fellow protesters who i thought were putting others in danger,(but they weren't really its just my dread)

 

[butchersapron]

Interestingly enough, there was a CRS dude on the R4 news earlier, saying as how, from the footage of the protest on 1/4 and the vigil for Mr. Tomlinson, our "riot police" were extremely ill-disciplined.

CRS tired to batter a load of us a train to geneva, very small space -they ended up hurting themselves more than us.

 

[ViolentPanda]

CRS tired to batter a load of us a train to geneva, very small space -they ended up hurting themselves more than us.

So, 10/10 for enthusiasm, 0/10 for technique?

 

[Mooncat]

CRS tired to batter a load of us a train to geneva, very small space -they ended up hurting themselves more than us.

Didn't much the same thing happen at Agincourt?