Having recently been assigned a duty involving potential large scale disorder with several pieces of good quality "intelligence" to suggest that gangs of feral youths were descending upon our area to fight it out with knives, machetes and various other sharp pointy things with the intention of dismember each other due to a lack of respect shown by one gang to another . (I say put them all in a cage and let them fight it out and put it on setanta sports on pay-per-view but apparently that's not in the ACPO manual)
For such a duty, with the aforementioned "intel" you would expect a level of protection for the police officers expected to deal with this lot of aggressive single celled cromags.
No.
Apparently, The kit worn by police for public order duties is considered to confrontational and intimidating for the general public and the carrying of long batons gives out the wrong impression by my university educated, high potential development schemed senior managers.
Its not like we WANT to fight a gang of 100+ idiots with knives or go out with logos like above painted on our helmets
You will no doubt be ecstatic to know that there was only a few stabbings, thirteen knife point robberies and numerous assaults.
I looked bloody smart in my shirt and tie though
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