nickyboy01
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Originally posted by SteveW
wasnt paying much attention this morning but a van went shooting past in the other direction with Police style stickers with a huge S.W.A.T sign down the side..
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Dark Blue Chevvy or something??
Its a Heathrow Armed response vehicle, see it around the perimeter quite often.
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Mav 3000
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The SAS is an army division originating from a Naval assult team. The US equivalent is Delta Force.
The SAS is an Army division not Police 
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sxibeast
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Registered: 6th Aug 03
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Most forces have a 'seige' style van.
Has everything from extra weaponary (assorted handguns, sniper rifles, etc), explosives, riot gear, entery equipment, comms and even a microwave and kettle for long drawn out situations!
[Edited on 11-07-2006 by sxibeast]
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Adam
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quote:
Originally posted by Mav 3000
The SAS is an army division originating from a Naval assult team. The US equivalent is Delta Force.
The SAS is an Army division not Police
SBS is from the Navy, SAS was formed form the long range desert group
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Cybermonkey
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the UK uses a mixture of the SRR Special Reconnaissance Regiment and the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG) when it comes to high level activity equiv to SWAT. SAS rarely has anything to do with homeland security, and often conducts covert missions abroad, first formed in 1941 to go BEL in North Africa against the Nazi's.
SO19 and CO19 form the basis of armed response in the South of England
* SO1 - International and Organised Crime / Homicide Unit (now Major Investigation Team)
* SO2 - Crime Support Branch / Department Support Group
* SO3 - Scenes of Crime Branch / Directorate of Forensic Services (now SCD4 Forensic Services)
* SO4 - National Identification Service
* SO5 - Miscellaneous Force Indexes / Child Protection (now SCD5 Child Abuse Investigation Team)
* SO6 - Fraud Squad (now SCD6 Economic and Specialist Crime)
* SO7 - Serious and Organised Crime (was originally SO1)
* SO8 - Forensic Science Laboratory / Flying Squad
* SO9 - Flying Squad (reassigned to SO8, then became part of SO7) / Regional Crime Squad
* SO10 - Crime Operations Group (now SCD10 Covert Policing)
* SO11 - Criminal Intelligence Branch
* SO12 - Special Branch
* SO13 - Anti-Terrorist Branch
* SO14 - Royalty Protection Branch (part of the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department)
* SO15 - Royal Palaces Division
* SO16 - Diplomatic Protection Branch (part of the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department)
* SO17 - PNC Bureau (now the Police Information Technology Organisation) / Palace of Westminster Division (part of the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department)
* SO18 - Aviation Security / Airport Policing
* SO19 - Force Firearms Unit (now CO19 Specialist Firearms Command)
* SO20 - Forensic Medical Examiners Branch
as you can see, it depends on the situation that needs to be taken care of
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sxibeast
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* SO9 - Flying Squad (reassigned to SO8, then became part of SO7) / Regional Crime Squad
Since the introduction of SOCA in April 2006, there are now no regional crime squads, instead it is just a nationwide team, unlike before when each region had control over what they did and how they did it
[Edited on 11-07-2006 by sxibeast]
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SteveW
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was watching Sky last night and on SkyNews on Friday at 8pm there is a programme about SO19 (maybe SO18 not sure now )
but might be good to watch
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Tommy
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Originally posted by Ojc
Yes, I ignored you Tom because your only 2 foot tall.
Short people can still be right, just like ojc type tw@ts can sometimes be right.
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