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choux | 15:22 Mon 08th Oct 2018 | News
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45784043

I expect Sir Craig Mackey will enjoy a long retirement and healthy pension.
If only the same could be said of Sgt & Mrs Keith Palmer.
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He and the other officers are cowards and a disgrace to the uniform. I don't know him but I am ashamed of him.
17:56 Mon 08th Oct 2018
Thoughts and prayers, etc.

Can a health related retirement be far away?
He and the other officers are cowards and a disgrace to the uniform.

I don't know him but I am ashamed of him.
He retires in December.
Maybe at least a dearth of dinner invitations then. Possibly not a bad thing right enough, some folk are a bit wavy with their cutlery, wouldn't want sir making a bolt for the car park to seek refuge.
Not that it will bother you Sqad,but you have went right down in my estimation.
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I promoted Keith Palmer - only just noticed, apologies.
// did you expect him to get out of the car, race in and save the day.// yes

The MP trooped up and gave evidence - "if you dont get your own hands dirty - no one will do a damned thing." so the MP did ECM...

as did the parents, people, hangers-on in Manchester. One of the helpers ( zero level responders ) asked the policeman who stuck a gun in this face: "are you going to do anything useful like help?"

Sqad - // Are you mad?

A P.C tackling an assailant who had a knife and you the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard unarmed, but in a locked car.
You stay put mate.....to lose a P.C is a shame, but to lose an Assistant Commissioner as well would have been negligent.

Nothing to do with pensions, but everything to do with common sense. //

Please tell me this is your misfiring sense of irony which has missed its target by several light years, and not what you really think.

Apparently there were civilians in the car with him so it might have affected his assessment of the situation. We want heroes what we have are humans, had he intervened and got in the way of the marksman who finished off the real villain of the piece, he would be termed stupid as well and might have been injured or killed too. No win situation unfortunately.
Hiding behind civilians now then
Oh the irony
These desk bound warriors get media training at Hendon Training School to give press conferences on News releases and Major Incidents and will remind all that the brave young men and women under his command are trained to run forward towards danger whilst all others run away. Clearly rank has it's privileges as I discovered on numerous occasions.
After the terrorist had been slotted by an armed officer our hero instructed his driver to go.
If you can zoom up to the ribbons on a senior police officers you will no doubt find a little black ribbon with a silver Maltese Cross. That is granted by St. Johns. This hero probably did not know if and where a First Aid box was located in the vehicle and would be incapable of sticking a plaster on a boil. Despicable disgrace and a uniform carrier.

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It is possible for a high up to put himself at the disposal of a more experienced younger person

Tavistock Sq 2005 -Dearden and Holden took charge of the main arrangements and the president of the BMA went around putting up drips ans sticking on plasters
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC558720/bin/bmj_331_7509_127_a_index.html

Sqad clearly could not have been there. Neither did the doctors lock themselves into the building, as the transport police did 50 m away. [and the firemen did 15 y later in Manchester]
Remind me not to get mugged when Squad is the only passer by.
A yellow ribbon and a white feather for Squad.
sorry i agree with sqad,
"The Met Police's acting chief"

pretty good description...he was only acting as a police officer then...wonder what his full time job is then !?
yeah just fink...
he is acting up at present -
but he comes to 'run' the Met he will do it by shouting " Run!"
// sorry i agree with sqad,//

when I thought a patient (small indian) was gonna stab another patient (big anglo wrestler). I shouted to walkers-on-by 'get the police'.(*) Later on I went around to all of bypassers and said - the next time you walk on by and do nothing, I will get you fired....
there was a hail of allegations I was harassing them. None of them had gone back to their wards and said "big trouble on t'corridor, sister"

one pt had stolen a phone of the other, and it was going "bring bring bring" during all this - I will let you work out which was what

Hospital authorities covered this up for rather obvious reasons. Matron who had locked herself in her office swore: "I was in my office and and I can officially certify nothing happened !"

(*) I was trying to insert myself between the two. ( See Lytton Strachey's evidence to the tribunal on conscientrious objection)

anglo was cautioned - not a happy anglo
The late ABer Mikey, would have had a ball with this thread.....he hated the Police.
Sqad, do we know why mikey hated the police?

Here is part of the police attestation:
and that I will, to
the best of my power, cause the peace to be kept and preserved and
prevent all offences against people and property;

The last line, prevent all offences against people and property, doesn't go on to say unless I'm sitting in my car.

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