Police sniper team as in RAF Police, or civilian police?
If the latter, what was wrong with the SLRs in the armoury?
Yeah you give 20 SLRs to guys to go out and shoot the cow.....
Result
7 personnel in hospital with gunshot wounds
8 passing civilians similar
16 sheep dead
22 Squirrels
1 Car property of Staish looking like swiss cheese
1 Bank held up
19 windows
22 aircraft shot (not even airborne)
and
1 Cow who got tired of the noise and wandered off for some quiet.