Secret Service Takes on School Violence
Aims to Help Identify Potentially Dangerous Youths
Aug. 17, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Long the guardian of America's
presidents and currency, the Secret Service is extending
its expertise to a new domain: the nation's schools.
The agency believes that some
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wait a minute here.
Why should the police benefit from any activity
in which they are *required* to participate? I mean, they were
hired to enforce the law, were they not?
It seems that a very important aspect is being
ignored: When
Policeman jailed for stealing amnesty gun
A policeman who gave away a pistol which was handed in
during a guns amnesty following the Dunblane School
massacre has been jailed for six months.
Desmond Pearson, a Constable with the South Yorkshire
force, had been found guilty at an earlier trial
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Range Staff for the Games will be predominantly UIT
judges of various qualifications, they have to be because
of the nature of the competition.
Regards
Jerry
--
You mean ISSF judges!
Steve.
Cybershooters website:
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know which specific legal provision allows
foreign military personnel to bring their service rifles
in for the service rifle events at Bisley?
Steve.
Foreign military forces are exempt from the Firearms Act by
virtue of the same
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Several different points here :-
Until after WW2 Chief Constables were local landed gentry,
ex-military or similar appointments. Almost none were or
had been serving police officers.
The Trenchard Scheme was a 1930's innovation I believe that
From: Dave Reay, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, is that not rather hypocritical?
Not really, I believe the similarities between the police and shooters
are very close, 150 years of the organised shooting of handguns as a
sport, and about the same length of time for the organised policing of
this
From: "Charles Parker", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Importation of Handguns
The amendments to the Regulations require the australian Customs Service
(Customs) to store any handguns imported for dealer stock into australia
until they have been sold to an end-user authorised by State/Territory
police -
From: James McNair, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does Bisley have a current Range Safety Certificate, if
so does it cover CF Pistols as our range was recently
certificated and had no CF Pistols on it.
If Bisley is the same then how are they going to shoot
pistols.
Neil Roberts
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I didn't think safety
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
from the home office!
"As a general rule of law, Acts of Parliament do not bin
the Crown or its servants unless specifically stated as
doing so. The Firearms Acts 1968 to 1997 therefore do
not apply to Crown servants in general.
In this respect, Section 54 of the
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not quite true the British police are and always have
been an armed force (most of the time its been the staff
- AKA truncheon - though the original Robert Peel
constables carried swords). A quick look at the Police
Act 1964 makes you realise that
From: "Hugh Bellars", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My view is that the police should ditch the MP5s and
assault rifles which scare the crap out of the public
(with rare exceptions) and learn how to use pistols.
In an ideal world yes. It used to be amazing to watch
the top pistol shots do a flash sight
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mas Ayoob reckoned the pistol calibre carbine was a better
police weapon in most situations than a handgun - he said
it in at least one Handgunner (UK) article while discussing
such things.
Given his experience I tend to think he had a valid point
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If I was two yards from the guy and I could read the make and model
I would still treat it as a lethal threat. You have no idea what
the guy could have done to it to increase the power of the gun.
For all you know he could have bought it in France or somewhere
where
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've never completely understood why SMGs are used for
law enforcement operations like this or even sillier,
semi-auto carbines. A handgun fires the same ammunition
and is easier to point inside a house. The range involved
is very short and you can mount a light on a
From: Jeremy Peter Howells, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Hague and Generva convenions specifically exclude
police or internal security forces from the ban on
expanding projectiles. It would therefore be legal
to use hollowpoints in Northern Ireland, however the
political fall out would be so great
From: "pa49", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It serves you right judge tells burglar stabbed by victim
A JUDGE yesterday backed a I householder who nearly
killed an armed robber during a violent raid on
his home.
Knowing nothing more than the details in the report I have
two observations on this case.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Sunday Times ran an interesting piece on a book by a
former SAS soldier named Tom Carew. It describes Britsh
involvement in Afganistan 20 years ago, in one part it
tells how a British Blowpipe missile (the first one ever
fired in anger) missed a Russian Hind
From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crown servants are not allowed to be overtly political in the sense of
campaigning for any single party, showing bias etc but that does not mean
they are not allowed to have an opinion or to voice it. The same applies to
most of the rest of us who may use
From: "Jim FRANKLIN", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[.
However I draw the line at Crown Servants using their
position to express views on the Law, Policy and further,
making provocative statements to the effect that the general
population abuse their hard won freedom, cannot be
trusted, should be
From: Dave Reay, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh, and by the way, Dave, a little piece of education
for you. The revenue from all your beloved speed
cameras goes to the treasury. The Police don't
get any of it! Strange but true. Another thing..
you must have got a speeding ticket when you were a
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And wouldn't it be nice if we could choose non police
as Chief Constables too?
from my limited reading of Agatha Christie et al { :-) }
it seems that lots of pre World War II Chief Constables
were not risen-from-the-ranks policeman. Also, when did
the "Trenchard"
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