From: JNugent73@mail.com 
  
 On 04/09/2025 12:23 PM, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
  
 > On 2025-09-04, Clive Page  wrote: 
 >> On 04/09/2025 11:45, Jon Ribbens wrote: 
 >>> On 2025-09-04, Clive Page  wrote: 
  
 >>>> One can see that if you are police officer it's a much more exciting way 
 >>>> to spend your day dashing onto the runway at Heathrow in a car with blue 
 >>>> lights flashing along with four colleagues all brandishing guns than 
 >>>> trying to investigating a real crime, which might, for example, involve 
 >>>> watching a lot of boring CCTV footage. So one can see their point of 
 >>>> view, it's just not something that most of the public would support. 
 > 
 >>> Did any of that actually happen, or did you make it up? 
 > 
 >> News reports said he was arrested by five armed police.  Perhaps that's 
 >> explainable if all police at Heathrow are armed, but even so to waste 
 >> the time of five of them seems to me a bit over the top. 
 > 
 > Five of them does seem unnecessary, but they didn't "dash" onto 
 > any runways, there were no "blue lights flashing", and there was 
 > no "brandishing" of guns. So in reality it doesn't seem all that 
 > exciting at all and hence your entire premise was false. 
  
 It was couched in heightened language, but in essence, it was correct. 
  
 The five officers were real and unnecessary in that number. They were 
 carrying frearms. It isn't correct, by the way, that all police officers 
 at Heathrow are firearms officers. There are plenty of arrests made at 
 the airport for all sorts of things, not least the attempted import of 
 contraband and illegal substances. And perhaps even making off without 
 paying at Wetherspoons. There are normal uniformed officers on hand to 
 deal with that sort of thing and that level of likely resistance to arrest. 
  
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