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Originally Posted by LancYorkYankee
This past July, I remember seeing 2 different police-type forces while riding the Tube in London. I believe I saw both "Bobbies(sp)" with no guns as well as another force with both handguns and I believed automatic weapons. Would that be due the recent terrorism? What agency does that group come under?
Brian
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The first time I saw a policeman with a gun was in 1965 when disembarking from an aircraft (with propellors), at Aldergrove Airport Northern Ireland on my way to start a job in Antrim, at the time it was rather a strange sight as 'the troubles' as we now know them had not started, or had not been publicised.
One has to remember television was mainly government controlled and the news heavily censured. The Royal Protection Service branch of the Police Force have always been armed, as has the Secret Services.