Nottingham is one of those places that does need policing robustly. I’ve lived all around the North of England, and was born and bred in Barnsley, but no other place has the edgy and dangerous feel that Nottingham has on a night out.
One thing I should point out about this episode is that nearly all if the ‘coppers’ were from the Firearms Support Group and usually only get called to incidents of the nature shown when either ‘the wheel has come off’ or fairly serious violence has been used.
Now I may be sticking my head a little too far above the parapet here when I say that most of these bobbys I know well, at least 3 are close personal friends; it may sound like I’m defending actions here but I can guarantee that you will never meet a more chilled out set of blokes than this lot. to put their (our) job into context, we are also the dept that have to attend and deal with fatal RTCs, and far too regularly we’ll be at an incident such as you saw here tonight, and then have to travel to a family home and pass the worst possible news to someones nearest and dearest. Then, due to our ‘other’ job, immediately after this, we may be looking down the barrel of a gun at an armed robber, followed yet again by another incident involving some idiot who can’t play nice once he or she has had a drink.
I watched this and was actually quite proud.