Foreign armed police may be needed for the 2012 London Olympics because there are not enough British officers trained to use firearms.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair told a Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) meeting it may be too expensive to train British policemen.
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Monday, June 11, 2007
Another reason why we should not have bid for the Olympics
The BBC reports:
Can't they find a bit of change in the £9bn they're already spending?
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Londoners would have preferred £1,000 each in cash rather than a pointless boondoggle.