Manhunt in Northumbria on BBC

im sure theres an army base nearby too so id expect a few of their guys will be hunting him down too.
as already stated, theres only so much that is gonna be released to the media.
 
BBC News are doing the papers just now and according to some SAS have joined the search and his mum also seems to have disowned him.
 
Lol @ John Rambo!

I hope to see the film in a few years time. :p


But yeah I agree, if the military get sent out the chance are he will be found quicker. But the chances are he will end up in a body bag.
 
Shattered peace: As cows graze in the meadows, armed police sweep the area. But had their quarry already departed the scene?
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No he hasn't, he's disguised as one of those cows. ;)
 
Can see I missed some interesting fiction last night...

The police are apparently unsuited to the task as they have no experience - so instead of giving them opportunities to gain experience you would deny them it.

The SAS are far more appropriate as they are used to tracking down and killing terrorists. I thought this was a body builder gone nuts, not a trained terrorist?

Police have no experience of tracking in the wilderness. Damn, all those police dogs which are annually tested by tracking cross country are in for a surprise.

Army intelligence never get it wrong.

The SAS are far more likely to shoot to kill – they are trained exclusively to do this. They are also trained to shoot until the person is unable to move. From what I can recall one of the terrorists in the siege was hit by over 30 rounds (as he fell down the stairs with a grenade in his hand). You are right – it wouldn’t have been 7 rounds – it would have likely been far more.

The police are carrying out anti terrorist operations constantly. A lot of them are never reported due to the need to protect the sources of information that allow the missions to be carried out. To assume that because you do not hear about all the operations, means that they don’t do any is absurd.

In the 80s the UK police force were not trained to deal with hostage situations of the nature of the Iranian embassy. They are far better at dealing with those situations today as they have been trained and do deal with them.

If you want to track someone in a forest you use a dog and a tracker. Both are things that the police have / have access to. In terms of the Northumberland countryside you would use the national park rangers as they have the most intimate knowledge and experience of the forest.
 
I've not read the whole thread, but after watching the news and saying how they've drafted in 4 other constabularies to help, then finding Moat's tent....but saying that the area is huge and that he knows the areas well......
......why haven't they (or have they) used helicopters with thermal/night vision. It would pick him out straight away and be able to survey far more area than people on the ground could.
Or have i missed something here?
 
I'm glad the Police have seen sense and brought in people who can do the job without worrying about health and safety issues.

Well done the Police! I feel much safer now............
 
Banzai_Joe said:
I've not read the whole thread, but after watching the news and saying how they've drafted in 4 other constabularies to help, then finding Moat's tent....but saying that the area is huge and that he knows the areas well......
......why haven't they (or have they) used helicopters with thermal/night vision. It would pick him out straight away and be able to survey far more area than people on the ground could.
Or have i missed something here?
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Already covered in the thread.

Finding this man is not as easy as armchair experts like you think it is.
 
Banzai_Joe said:
......why haven't they (or have they) used helicopters with thermal/night vision. It would pick him out straight away and be able to survey far more area than people on the ground could.
Or have i missed something here?
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they are, however the area is big and the heli's can only search a small area, also they would have to land and check out every thing that could be a person...

when you see them find hiding people on the TV they know the person is in the small area.
 
To all of you that are saying 'OMG THEY BROUGHT IN THE SAS HE IS DEFINATLY A DEAD MAN, THEY SHOOT TO KILL, OMFG I DON'T FEEL SAFE ANYMORE. WOULD SOMEBODY THINK OF ALL THE DEAD CHILDREN THE SAS WILL KILL'

Are quite possibly the most misinformed people I have ever heard.
 
Col_M said:
I think you underestimate them if you think they train purely to kill people on sight.
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I dont purely believe this.

When they train for CQB generally its to kill. They do however do a range of other tasks which would not involve killing.

The point I was trying to make is that in general the special forces in this type of role would be more likely to shoot to kill than to shoot to wound.
 
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