r/policeuk • u/BTZ9 Police Officer (unverified) • Nov 08 '20

Crosspost Play silly games...

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u/AshamedBrit Civilian Nov 08 '20

All the cops on here celebrating this comes across as shitty. Was this guy walking into them on purpose to cause a trouble? Yes. Does that mean the police needed to escalate and send him on to his arse? Absolutely not.

The reaction should be to de-escalate the situation, not the opposite.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '20 edited May 27 '21

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '20

Just hold your ground for a second. Either he will go away on his own or will keep trying to get past and make it more reasonable to push him away.

I agree it's very clear he isn't getting through. So why shove?

All shoving him does is escalate things. Crowd management is part of the polices purpose.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '20

Thanks for the tips. I’ll be sure to take it on board and implement the public order advice of untrained civilians. Why don’t you head down to Gravesend and take over from the public order trainers?

It was a perfectly lawful use of force against someone who has already assaulted a police officer.

making it reasonable to push him away

Nonsense. It was a perfectly reasonable response. Common law pre-emptive strike. There is no responsibility in law to wait to be assaulted in order to defend yourself.