
The firearms test was a humiliation. I watched the video, with my finger on the trigger of some virtual firearm connected to a computer and was instructed to fire if the armed gunman, who had taken a child hostage in a shopping centre, opened fire. He shot me eight times before I winged a lady pushing a trolley several yards from the target. Shoot too late and you're dead; shoot too soon and you are hauled before some disciplinary body.
During his time at Southampton Police Station, he met and was impressed with... "The sheer patience of the young officers was striking, putting up with intense provocation from young men looking for trouble and enraged by alcohol".
The piece (very refreshing) is worth a read, if only to realise that some of our politicians really do understand where we're coming from!
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