Eeyore wrote:

Steve Firth wrote:

Eeyore wrote:

Steve Firth wrote:

Eeyore wrote:

look at them in the streets. If there are guns involved in a
situation the armed response team will be called. Special units.

Are you claiming that these "special units" are not police officers?

I think he's claiming that they are specially trained units rather
than just PC Plod like in the USA.

He's doing no such thing, he's doing the usual Drivel tactic of talking
crap and being too stupid to admit that he made a mistake. He certainly
has not argued that these are "specially trained units" as you allege.

Are you arguing that US police officers have no weapons training?

Minimal.

Then you are telling lies.

Are you claiming that the UK training is somehow infinitely superior
to the US training?

No, it's significantly superior.

Utter bull****.

You've UTTERLY lost it.

Still with the capitals.

I used to know a couple of SO19 officers (now CO19 of the Metropolitan
Police (London) special firearms unit for the benefit of non-Brits) and
they're regularly on training courses.

Did anyone say they were not trained?

http://www.met.police.uk/co19/
http://www.met.police.uk/co19/training.htm

Initial Firearms Course ........... The course is of two weeks duration

ARV Course
After being selected for becoming a member of the Armed Response Vehicles,
the successful Officer will undertake a Basic Firearms Course, if not
already an AFO, a one-week H & K MP5 Carbine course and then an intensive
three-week ARV course. Having passed the course Officers are then posted
to an ARV relief and attend training for three days every six weeks.

So, to get to be an ARV officer requires at least SIX weeks specialist
training plus regular training thereafter.

Six weeks eh?

Now returning to the point, in what way is this training superior to the
training given to the equivalent teams in the USA?

BTW, fix your bloody line length.