Originally Posted by
Hangarshuffle
3. Because in addition to the above I think the current carve up of response units in the UK looks rather bitty in reaction to the current ongoing atrocities- this has to be addressed but it wont be easy to tie together. I mean by that - could we do better? We have UK civ police, army, 2 x types of special forces, British transport police, secret services MI5 and MI6, RAF people now as well.....must be a nightmare trying to coordinate all of the this to respond. Could it be better?
HMG is looking into amalgamating BTP, the MOD police and civil nuclear police into one force in order to provide a new firearms force which could consist of around 1500 armed officers. The trouble for the government is that BTP are crown employees whereas CNC are civil servants and therefore both forces have completely different terms and conditions.