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It is the opposite - it is extremely rare for the SAS to be involved, i.e Iranian Embassy sige in 1980. They cannot get involved in domestic policing - only terrorist sieges/hostage situations which are thankfully very very rare - plane hijackings etc. All forces have a SFO capability for Dynamic
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the merge of the firearms unit its not a good idea they are completely different it would confuse terribly. The Firearms Unit Article explains what it is, where as Specialist Firearms Command has a different agenda of policing and has different history, trust me its not a good idea.
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I essentially added the sentence, "The British police are generally unarmed", to give the section context. The previous version of the article did not denote the Firearms Unit as a British police function. I also added links to SWAT, and Armed Response Vehicles.
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Yes, although outside of the met forces have small reserves of SFOs due to them only being required for a barricaded hostage situation. And they only are called when it is deemed for
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Wipedia ought not to be the mouthpiece of politically correct smokescreening!
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