Research in Nottingham Libary Regarding the police use of weapons

I went to Nottingham City Library this morning, to look up previous instance of the previous loss of ammo and weapons by police in the county. I know of instances in 2001 with the loss of another magazine and 1995 when they lost five hand guns out the back of a van. The doors were open, while they drove along, ‘cos it was hot, apparently!!

Checked back though their cuttings archives and nothing was there. I asked an assistant about it, and , apparently they only keep ‘important cuttings.’

I composed myself, and asked to speak to a senior archivist. She said; we mainly keep cutting of ‘policy changes’ rather than ‘incidents’. And “Yep, I agree, it does seem we’ve been ‘kind’ to the police!”. She also remembered the story from the time, [thus if she remembered 8 years later, chances are in might have been important!]

As a senior troublemaker, I told her there and then, that I would be grateful if that policy could be changed immediately, to take into account, what are self-evidently serious matters, that should result in ‘important cuttings’ and would be taking it up with the Nottinghamshire Senior Librarian next week. [watch this space] .

Oh god!! I mean, bloody heck, my whole life is like this. So there’s another couple of hours next week, to account for all this .. .. ..

So, in my previous blog entry: “Gun Crime and Police response – Collected Links”

http://tash_lodge.blogspot.com/2003_02_02_tash_lodge_archive.html#88756662

where all what I’ve found out so far and links discovered, I’ve bundled together there. This is all a bit outside my usual subjects.

But hey, It needed doing.

Hope you all find it useful. No doubt the police will find my interest in all this, ‘interesting!’