Give me a break.. get the military in for a job like this in under an hour..!!
Your having a laaaff..
Maybe if its within 10 miles of hereford.. but anywhere else and your stuffed..
The laaaff is thinking that you can get any police helicopter in the country into a condition to ferry any 4 armed officers to anywhere in the country within this magic hour.
By simply looking at a map, I think you'll find that Hereford is the ideal location to deploy to anywhere in England and Wales from
But why would you need it when you have a chopper to do the spotting (it's job) the ARV boys to do the job. All available 24/7. But only if the government have not moved them miles away to save money.
I think the point of this part of the thread is that the armed officers in Norway eventually got onto the island by any boat they could find. The dig is that the helicopter was 90 mins away and unable to get officers onto the island by air. Something that we, IMHO given this situation, wouldn't be able to do within an hour ourselves
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The job of the police would be to contain such a situation while the job of the SAS (Special Air Service), if called upon, would be to resolve it.