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EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 11, 2010, 06:00:27 PM
EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE
Friday September 10,2010
By Mark Reynolds

POLICE have been sent on a training course to prepare for a massive earthquake, it emerged last night.

The three-day exercise, involving hundreds of staff from four forces, cost almost £1million.

Yet over the past 1,036 years since records began in 974 only 11 people are known to have been killed by earthquakes in Britain. And the last one of any size was nearly 80 years ago.

Officers from Hampshire, Hertfordshire and Merseyside took part in the bizarre exercise this week to plan for a tremor measuring 8 on the Richter scale. Mock disaster scenes included burning cars and collapsed buildings and more than 600 actors and amputees were employed to pose as injured victims.

The biggest quake ever to hit the UK – at Dogger Bank in 1931 – measured just 6.1 and caused only one fatality, a woman in Hull who had a heart attack.

Nevertheless, top brass felt it necessary to be prepared for an event on a par with the Haiti quake in January this year, which killed more than 230,000.

Critics last night said police should be using their scarce resources to fight crime, not dealing with imaginary and unlikely scenarios. A spokesman for the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Taxpayers would question whether this exercise is good value for money.

“They want their police officers to be well trained, but this is clearly taking those officers away from their duties for an event which is unlikely ever to happen in Britain.

“At a time when the police are facing massive budget cuts they need to use the resources they have wisely.” Sergeant Colin White, a crime scene manager with Hampshire Constabulary, worked on disaster victim identification at Fort Widley, near Portsmouth.

He told Police Review magazine that Exercise Orion, which also involved emergency workers from Denmark, Germany, Norway, Italy and Spain, was a unique test and very realistic.

“We have amputees playing roles, there were people screaming and buckets of dust being thrown and there were many bodies lying at different angles.

“There are around 400 officers trained in disaster victim identification and they visited Widley over the course of three days.” Other mock quake scenes involved fire fighters, ambulance crews and helicopters.

In Merseyside the exercise involved creating a street with burning buildings, trapped victims and 40 smashed cars.

Pete Crook, of Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, said it was deliberately organised to challenge teams to the limit.

“That is why we have chosen the unlikely scenario of an earthquake, because the UK is not accustomed to such incidents and it is outside all normal planning assumptions.” But some officers were not impressed.

One senior policeman, who did not want to be named, said: “It’s all very well preparing for a giant earthquake, but you might as well plan for a meteor strike or a volcano. Both are about as likely to happen in the UK as an earthquake.

"It just seems like a lot of manpower being used to deal with something which is extremely unlikely.”

A Hampshire Constabulary spokesman said last night the exercise had provided an invaluable opportunity to receive specialist training, particularly in identifying bodies.

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I don't know for you but I find this suspicious. Do they know something we don't?
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Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 11, 2010, 07:51:06 PM
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"It just seems like a lot of manpower being used to deal with something which is extremely unlikely.”

 :shock:

So if it is unlikely, what is the point of spending the money on this...I thought it was all about cuts at the moment...

Oh my, why did I ever move to the UK?!     :roll:

(But I love it there, I'm not an ungrateful immigrant!  ;) )


(Fingers crossed)
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paula-c

Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 11, 2010, 08:59:03 PM
Of course it is very suspicious Sarahli ... :geek:
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Lee.H

Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 11, 2010, 09:27:47 PM
In the start it says they are planning for one measuring 8, then goes onto saying that it's not likely to happen. So what's it to be? I interpret the start to mean they have detected it coming and are preparing. Else why are they planning for one to hit? And why are they planning for one at that exact measurement?

Is it just me that interprets it this way?

Lee.
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Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 12, 2010, 01:03:54 AM
Very interesting,,,,,, I predict a major event happening in the UK in the near future.
Any bets?
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Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 12, 2010, 04:39:57 AM
My friend, who's the brother of a police inspector, said:
Silly, that they don't say it's a terror attack training.
I immediately thought of 2012  :shock:
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Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 12, 2010, 05:01:59 AM
UK will be hosting the next Olympic Games in 2012.
I will not buy a ticket - not out of fear but because I will not participate in a whoopla.
It will be the first time I will be on strike and NOT EVEN WATCH the Games.

And this is just a little part of why:
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Comments are worth a look.

This is the video about the mascots:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KatN365jaBg[/youtube]

Where you find a "Happy retirement, George" and a date: 060705 written on a steel tube.

What happened on June 7, 2005:
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Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 12, 2010, 11:15:29 AM
The first thing that came to mind in-law saw those things,... "pet" was the all-seeing eye, as someone said in the comments, it was lurid .
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SarahliTopic starter

Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 12, 2010, 02:52:11 PM
Quote from: "Lee.H"
In the start it says they are planning for one measuring 8, then goes onto saying that it's not likely to happen. So what's it to be? I interpret the start to mean they have detected it coming and are preparing. Else why are they planning for one to hit? And why are they planning for one at that exact measurement?

Is it just me that interprets it this way?

Lee.

I see what you mean it's like they're adding the meteor strike and the volcano to cool the waters and hide their knowledge of a coming earthquake. What is strange is how can they know so much in advance that an eartquake is going to happen and be so sure about it that they spend a lot of money to prepare themselves to this situation? I don't know if it's possible. Maybe yes but the fact that the UK is very unlikely to have earthquakes and even less of this magnitude adds to the suspicion and makes me think of HAARP.

A meteor strike seems possible too because they can know it in advance. But it would be a natural disaster not something entirely part of their agenda but we must consider that they might know it in advance and don't warn the people, hence use it to their benefit, like 2012.
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Grace

Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 12, 2010, 05:43:32 PM
The UK is not situated in a specific earthquake region, nor are the island sitting close to a fault.


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But imagine e.g. underground gaz pipeline explosions.
That's possible (as well as oil rig explosions as we learned this spring).
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SarahliTopic starter

Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
September 13, 2010, 06:12:14 AM
Quote from: "Grace"
The UK is not situated in a specific earthquake region, nor are the island sitting close to a fault.


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But imagine e.g. underground gaz pipeline explosions.
That's possible (as well as oil rig explosions as we learned this spring).

Yes it's another possibility, a false-flag attack. Because what would be the point to create an earthquake in the UK? The earthquake scenario seems to be a kind of cover-up, they're preparing for something else and do not want to raise suspicions.

All this makes me think of the recent volcanic eruption in Island...can it be connected in some ways? I'm getting paranoid by the day... :?
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Grace

Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
August 10, 2011, 12:08:22 AM
Bumping up in view of latest developments in the U.K.

Do we have somebody from within the country onboard here?

Are there any indications that riots might have been induced to deliver good reasons to tighten security measures well ahead of the Olympic events?
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SarahliTopic starter

Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
August 10, 2011, 06:08:44 PM
 
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Bumping up in view of latest developments in the U.K.

Do we have somebody from within the country onboard here?

Are there any indications that riots might have been induced to deliver good reasons to tighten security measures well ahead of the Olympic events?


I think that's it Grace... :lol: ... I know it's not funny it's just the way you gave the answer in your question  :D
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Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
August 10, 2011, 06:33:02 PM
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Bumping up in view of latest developments in the U.K.

Do we have somebody from within the country onboard here?

Are there any indications that riots might have been induced to deliver good reasons to tighten security measures well ahead of the Olympic events?


It wouldn't surprise me at all if authorities in London had a small group of people to start a riot - it doesn't take much for others to join in and it snowballed from there.  Who knows though really.  I can see them using these riots as an excuse to impose some sort of martial law when the Olympics are on...or just impose it for good, "Sutler" style.  I would really like to hear from someone living in London.
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Re: EARTHQUAKE TRAINING FOR POLICE - UK
August 11, 2011, 05:57:12 PM

About the Olympics...this is a disturbing video  pale/ -- You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
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