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 On Thu, 4 Sep 2025 18:46:49 +0100, "billy bookcase"  wrote: 
  
 > 
 >"Mark Goodge"  wrote in message 
 >news:2p4jbk141lh6iojm6ta3cs0ed0agbu5tk2@4ax.com... 
 > 
 >> The modern preference to arrest first, and question later, seems 
 >> to me to be a suboptimal use of police resources as well as 
 >> unnecessarily melodramatic. 
 >> 
 > 
 >Or quite possibly, necessarily melodramatic; so as to impress the 
 >taxpayers, make the news headlines, and send a message. 
 > 
 >Only as per usual, it turned out to be the wrong message. 
 > 
 >The only wonder is they didn't tape off the whole of the 
 >arrivals area, for the operation. 
 > 
 >While at a wild guess if they'd only deployed the one officer, 
 >the other four would have simply stayed in the rest room 
 >playing cards or watching TV. Rather than making their show 
 >of strength, on the News. 
  
 Yes, I'm fairly sure that the other four didn't have anyting particularly 
 important to do at that particular moment. And, had anything kicked off at 
 the airport, they'd have have dealt with that as a priority rather than 
 attending to the arrest of a person who posed no immediate threat. So, in 
 one sense, it wasn't a waste of police resources, because they were at work 
 and getting paid anyway whether or not they attended the arrest, and they 
 weren't diverted from other duties because being at the airport was their 
 duty. But, on the other hand, attending the arrest was a piece of theatre 
 that wasn't strictly necessary under the circumstances. And it's reasonable 
 to ask why they decided to do that. 
  
 Mark 
  
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