Lawful guns seized: Police ask “How'd he get such a haul?"

[joe]

Personally I would love to see the end of the police using social media. Far too many throbbers involved in all aspects. Considered and truthful press releases at the end of a case, all well and good. The police don't need farcebook, twatter or any other such abomination. They don't need a "corporate image and would be better served actually just doing the right thing as opposed to just being seen to be doing the right thing..

Read your article Gaz. Firstly, some public order offences can be committed in private and secondly, apart from being just as inflammatory as the wording used by "SW Response", "Supposedly this is so any public sector employee visiting an FAC/SGC holder’s home is warned in advance that a gun-toting madman lives there.", ..... Really....?

Ta for the headsup on public order offences, I've updated that. Genuinely thought they were public places only - remind me not to swear in my living room! As for the sarky part, I've added scare quotes and (sarcasm) just in case someone without a sense of humour comes along......

I mostly agree with you about police and social media, it's just window dressing. Unfortunately, so long as "public confidence" targets exist to keep senior managers' pensions and OBEs flowing, that particular rubbish will just keep on coming.

section 4-5 public order (threating words, etc) cannot be committed in a drewling except if in the case of the dispaying a sign that is threating, inssulting etc that can be seen from the outside

breach of the peace can be comitted in both public and private places

[joe]

until we get the whole story however it does seem to me that anything even if you a victum of crime they will take away the firearms pending an invesgation with a view to revoke if this is happening then is bang out order and is dilbrate attampt to revoke FAC's to halt the number of lawfully owned firearms

*now if a crime has bee committed involving the FAC holder, domestics or suspcions of a nutjob like hamilton or bird etc then they should take away and invesgate.

but since the sheeple have irrational fear of fireams / weapons like no other eu country has
the police and state will get very little protests except from the shooting communty

i wounder if any other EU country police liancing deparment does this? i think not