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2:46 pm, 2/12/10
A brilliant scheme by British police officers aiming to try something new to reduce burglaries: attempt to commit them themselves.
#1) Police officers will inevitably be injured by frightened civilians. It's already common enough to find residents arrested and tried for using excessive force against intruders. Adrenaline-charged residents, hearing their burglar's claims that he is a police officer, will likely find the idea so insane that they simply don't believe it and resume the beating.
#2) Some legitimate burglars, when caught in the act, will likely try falsely identifying themselves as police officers and even present false identification. Some residents, aware of this "program", may very well buy it and fail to report attempted burglaries.
Officers have begun testing windows and doors at night as part of a campaign to increase home security.Understandably, some area residents are displeased with the idea. Two outcomes of this brilliant scheme that I can predict right now:
If they find one open, they are under orders to knock on the door and drag sleepy residents from their beds and lecture them.The move is part of an initiative called Operation Golden which aims to slash burglary rates in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
#1) Police officers will inevitably be injured by frightened civilians. It's already common enough to find residents arrested and tried for using excessive force against intruders. Adrenaline-charged residents, hearing their burglar's claims that he is a police officer, will likely find the idea so insane that they simply don't believe it and resume the beating.
#2) Some legitimate burglars, when caught in the act, will likely try falsely identifying themselves as police officers and even present false identification. Some residents, aware of this "program", may very well buy it and fail to report attempted burglaries.
Dairenn Lombard at 05:59 PM, 2/12/10
There is a very good reason why you'll never hear of such a program being attempted anywhere in the United States. Could you imagine what would happen if a cop dies over this from a resident shooting an intruder that turns out to be a police officer?
There is a very good reason why you'll never hear of such a program being attempted anywhere in the United States. Could you imagine what would happen if a cop dies over this from a resident shooting an intruder that turns out to be a police officer?
at 11:38 AM, 2/14/10
Dairenn, given the rules of engagement that Officer operate under, there probably would me more dead civilians. If they saw a firearm in the execution of this operation, they would shoot first, or having one of their own shot, the would fire back and call in back up to SWAT raid the place.
Dairenn, given the rules of engagement that Officer operate under, there probably would me more dead civilians. If they saw a firearm in the execution of this operation, they would shoot first, or having one of their own shot, the would fire back and call in back up to SWAT raid the place.
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