Met Police Riot Training Centre - Pics

[alanc1000]

*no police bashing comments please*

I got invited down to the Met Police riot and firearms training centre to test some stuff we've been helping with, and they staged a mock riot to test a few things out and practice. They use their own purpose built town set, you would not believe just how many different scenareos they practice behind the scenes....

Some views from above, we were stood on a viewing balcony above a fake kabab house..

Chavs getting stuck in with molotov cocktails and bricks..

Ground level view of streets...

They also practice tactics in trains, a tube train and plane..

In the town next door they practice armed seiges and other gun stuff..

They actually have 2 of these beasts that they send in to real life riots to clear baracades... only problem is the 25mph top speed, meaning the riot is over by the time it arrives ...

They have a fleet of these for riot situations, both marked and also unmarked to look like those cash security vans, 7.5 tonnes!..

Indoor firing range was a bit boring though..

It was pretty amazing to watch, but riot police is deffo not a job i'd want to do!

 

[Rubicon_]

thats cool! Just goes to show they know what there doing

 

[MikeC]

This looks like behind the scenes of The Bill when they had riot scenes in the other week

 

[Beef-Mc]

Flol at the pairing of Kev & Trev, sounds like a dodgy cop pairing from the 80's.

 

[alanc1000]

This looks like behind the scenes of The Bill when they had riot scenes in the other week

They have filmed the Bill a few times there, plus a few other random film scenes, the BBC were filming there last week for some documentary about how we deal with riots compared with other european cities.

Beef MC - you should have seen the state of some of the road names, they were awful, I think was was called bullet road or something dodgy!

 

[seb]

is the mock town called Sandford by chance?

 

[alanc1000]

is the mock town called Sandford by chance?

No its over in Gravesend, so technically Kent Police territory!

 

[seb]

LOL you missed my point Alan. Sandford is a made up town that the Police use for all their exam questions etc. i thought they may have called it that

the film hot fuzz use it too. it is a running joke at training school that sandford has the highest crime rate in the uk. A lot of in jokes from that film for the filth. When i saw it t the cinema i was laughing at a lot of things that no one else did for example.

 

[alanc1000]

LOL you missed my point Alan. Sandford is a made up town that the Police use for all their exam questions etc. i thought they may have called it that

the film hot fuzz use it too. it is a running joke at training school that sandford has the highest crime rate in the uk. A lot of in jokes from that film for the filth. When i saw it t the cinema i was laughing at a lot of things that no one else did for example.

TBH it probably was called Sandford and i missed the sign somewhere. I got distracted when i immediately thought of Frankie Sandford from the Saturdays

Yes they mentioned Hot Fuzz, the instructor who showed us about got a woody as he's in the first 30 seconds of the film.

We were down there doing some CCTV and command and control testing for the olympics, the fixed cameras they have around the site are s**t, but the mobile ones they stuck up for todays exercise were amazing!

Gutted they didnt have any horses down there today though, usually they have mounted police getting tennis balls lobbed at them, that would have been good to watch!

 

[seb]

yeah i used to work occasionally with some city of london horses. fecking huge beasts.

 

[Lewis_S]

looks a laugh tbh lol

 

[fossie]

Did my training there, getting smashed with a molotov is an experience!!!!!!

 

[Omid]

Never seen those trucks before!! Interesting!

 

[Brian]

Nice trucks, for obvious reasons i've never seen one of them - can't imagine they go out every day..

 

[alanc1000]

Nice trucks, for obvious reasons i've never seen one of them - can't imagine they go out every day..

Yeah the bloke was saying when they go out in them they get some amazing looks, they can do 90mph max. They've had some steering racks break on them tho! Here are some other pics i've robbed from google..

 

[Steviant]

lol, call that riot training???

I think that would be described as kindergarden training in Belfast.

 

[alanc1000]

^ they were talking about those water cannons today, they really want them as they are so effective, but the Home Office won't allow them!!

 

[Derelict-UK]

you say the CCTV cameras are s**t? would that mean that I could hop over the fence and take some piccies of the place while they are on a tea break?

OR

What's the possibility of actually getting permission to photograph it with some burnt cars lining the street but no people?

 

[Scrooge]

Looks excellent!!!

 

[Steviant]

^ they were talking about those water cannons today, they really want them as they are so effective, but the Home Office won't allow them!!

Home office are to pc, excuse the pun.

Should be spraying paint instead of water, that way they could identify the rioters more easily.

Your shots are great. Especially like the the ones with the shields and the petrol bomb exploded in front of them.

I think i've passed this place on the train. There is an outdoor range as well?

 

[BIFCAIDS]

still wouldnt mind joining the police, then get into traffic or dog handling or even CID be the modern gene hunt (bet thats what seb wishes he was)

 

[GeordieClioDriver]

Canny photos! it does look exactly like the episode of the bill when they did it lol

Im trying to get into the police, wor lass works for them and she says they only recruit when they need to... could be 6 months could be 2 years!

 

[Leeshez]

Cracking piccys.

 

[m4rkie23]

Canny photos! it does look exactly like the episode of the bill when they did it lol

Im trying to get into the police, wor lass works for them and she says they only recruit when they need to... could be 6 months could be 2 years!

yeah ive been told this be a friend that works for them too.
ive given up tbh.

couple that with the fact im a young white male, and chances soon dwindle.

 

[Cookie]

I've been up close to those big trucks

They were all out when the peasants were revolting in the City

 

[Rob]

I've been up close to those big trucks

They were all out when the peasants were revolting in the City

FLOL! I can just imagin the serious tone in your head as you say that, superiority complex FTW!!! :rasp:

Pics are great Alan, what is it you do? Seems an interesting day out!

 

[Gally]

Great pics Alan.

Look at the size of Trev, big guy!

 

[seb]

still wouldnt mind joining the police, then get into traffic or dog handling or even CID be the modern gene hunt (bet thats what seb wishes he was)

i do roll in CID so am almost there.

 

[BIFCAIDS]

you more a chris skelton seb? lol

 

[seb]

LOL

 

[jayxx83]

nice insight there

 

[alanc1000]

you say the CCTV cameras are s**t? would that mean that I could hop over the fence and take some piccies of the place while they are on a tea break?

OR

What's the possibility of actually getting permission to photograph it with some burnt cars lining the street but no people?

They try and keep the site secret although its still on google maps and there are commercial premises over looking it! I am security cleared at the Met and have a contractors pass, not sure if they let in members of the public BUT they did used to allow students in to act as the rioters, not sure if this is still the case! I'd say chances of picture permission is about 25%!

Home office are to pc, excuse the pun.

Should be spraying paint instead of water, that way they could identify the rioters more easily.

Your shots are great. Especially like the the ones with the shields and the petrol bomb exploded in front of them.

I think i've passed this place on the train. There is an outdoor range as well?

The trainer there showed me some pics - and he was saying one of the biggest pain in the bums were protestors and rioters lobbing paint over the police! There were pics of riot cops covered in white gloss paint! There is an outdoor range and 2 mock towns, its next to a quarry along the thames, there is a train line along it so you probs have seen it.

FLOL! I can just imagin the serious tone in your head as you say that, superiority complex FTW!!! :rasp:

Pics are great Alan, what is it you do? Seems an interesting day out!

I work for a technology research company, and one of my analysts based in the US is over for the week and as he is ex-FBI and a US governemnt advisor on some technology stuff the Met wanted to meet with him, so we did a presentation down there on policing technology trends, and then we spent the afternoon looking at their experimental mobile CCTV set up over the site which they are using to practice for the olympics. Plus I always take the bloke out who arranged it for me to various lunches on my company credit card, which helps . It was a fun day for sure!