Adam
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I was in South Bank yesterday, not too far on the London Eye. I see three 'Community Support Officers' running away from the subway that goes underneath the bridge. They paused for breath and started legging it again, as far as the Aquarium.
Then a bloke, clearly drunk, comes out of the subway holding a bottle, threatening to smash it against their heads. Most of the public, myself and girlfriend included legged it up the stairs but he started to follow halfway up.
Literally 25-seconds later after I had first seen the bloke. 8 real Police officers were running down to the area and told him once to put it down.
Amusingly, there was a foreign tourist standing on the stairs looking through the viewfinder of his camera taking pictures of Big Ben, completely oblivious that there was a man one-step behind him with a bottle. This bloke eventually legged it after being told to "F-ing move then" and the Police tazered the guy with the bottle.
Then two full Police vans, one Police car, one Police motorbike and an Ambulance turned up within 40 seconds.
A pretty good response I thought, but I would feel more confident if the first point of Policing in the capital wasn't Community Support Officers running away from crime. Clearly, they have no powers or training to tackle someone like that, but they just ran as fast as they can, with no thought to tell any members of the public to get back as an armed bloke was coming out of the tunnel. I'm surprised they weren't too busy hassling photographers, anyway
Then a bloke, clearly drunk, comes out of the subway holding a bottle, threatening to smash it against their heads. Most of the public, myself and girlfriend included legged it up the stairs but he started to follow halfway up.
Literally 25-seconds later after I had first seen the bloke. 8 real Police officers were running down to the area and told him once to put it down.
Amusingly, there was a foreign tourist standing on the stairs looking through the viewfinder of his camera taking pictures of Big Ben, completely oblivious that there was a man one-step behind him with a bottle. This bloke eventually legged it after being told to "F-ing move then" and the Police tazered the guy with the bottle.
Then two full Police vans, one Police car, one Police motorbike and an Ambulance turned up within 40 seconds.
A pretty good response I thought, but I would feel more confident if the first point of Policing in the capital wasn't Community Support Officers running away from crime. Clearly, they have no powers or training to tackle someone like that, but they just ran as fast as they can, with no thought to tell any members of the public to get back as an armed bloke was coming out of the tunnel. I'm surprised they weren't too busy hassling photographers, anyway
