MOD Fireams

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Originally Posted by psdtraining MOD Police also have overseas attachments, met some in Beruit once!

Yeah, I met a couple in Bosnia... Wanted to give me a speeding ticket as I recall!!

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Any experience is good experience, it depends on how you use it.
I am Met Police and love it. I work with an ex-Mod Plod guy who is very capable. He has been out to Bosnia and other places. But then he came here. Don't know why, but he did.
I am partisan, and I don't want to offend those from the rest of the country, but the opportunities in smaller forces are somewhat limited; we have had an influx of officers from Home County forces who are able to remain in their houses and work in the Met, using the free rail travel. It's becoming such a problem for the other forces that they are now actively deterring officers from leaving and trying to win back those that have.

There are many routes in to firearms work, but it's fair to say, the Met has the greatest number of jobs (more than all the home counties added together, according to recent stats) and we have a more diverse manner of deployment for the huge numer of armed officers.

Just as an aside, but to give you an idea of how much firearms work there is, I heard recently that an officer from here was at a provincial forces armoury, don't actually know why. They were discussing stocks held. According to the chap from the provincial force, they stock 1700 rounds. In a day, at any of the town ranges in London, when we are doing standard reclass shooting for AFO's (so nothing fancy) we will expend between 1500 and 1800 rounds. Every day, 5 days a week, for two months. Then we change the type of shooting and we may shoot more. It is seldom less.

The choice, I heard someone say, is yours...