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Originally Posted by John Wilkes Booth
do armed response units patrol the streets or only respond to specific calls?
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Originally Posted by fiddler
I'm honestly just guessing here but I would assume that they respond to specific calls such as a SWAT team would. It doesn't make sense (in my brain anyways) to have officers armed with automatic weapons just hanging out walking around.
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Pretty much as Fiddler says. They're called out for specific crimes, like a bank robbery or whatever. But I think (monkey can confirm for the UK) they can also be part of like a bodyguard for a dignitary, part of a riot squad and the TDs (equivalent of members of parliament here) have armed guards driving them around.
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