01-29-2014, 01:21 PM
Police tactics.
Defensive / offensive.
Until 1993 the danish police basically lined up with their shield and just stood passively enduring what ever the rioters threw at them.
That changed after the 18th of May.
Too few officers got into trouble when they ran out of gas, radio communications broke down and the fact that there was a lot of roadwork in the area so there where easy access to stones to throw... And in the end they where forced to draw their sidearms and fire into the rioters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA8bsDS3KuY (at 1:20)
(In total 113 shots was fired. and 93 officers was hurt. And a lot of them seriously.)
Today they rarely use shields.
They use trucks as cover, then rush forward grab the the rioters that is most aggressive and pull them back behind the line of trucks and arrest them. IT is a much more aggressive tactic and it works a lot better Since they actually arrest the main troublemakers.
![[Image: COP15_demonstration_926401m.jpg]](http://multimedia.ekstrabladet.dk/archive/00926/COP15_demonstration_926401m.jpg)
The very defensive tactics simply didn't work, since they police would newer "win" at best get a "draw" by getting the rioters to go home.
And when you have a shield on one arm it is pretty much impassible to grab a person.
With the new way they can actually arrest the rioters and stop the riot...
I would imagine that a phalanx with overlapping shields have a very hard time moving fast forward and attacking the enemy... where legionaries can do it a lot easier...
Defensive / offensive.
Until 1993 the danish police basically lined up with their shield and just stood passively enduring what ever the rioters threw at them.
That changed after the 18th of May.
Too few officers got into trouble when they ran out of gas, radio communications broke down and the fact that there was a lot of roadwork in the area so there where easy access to stones to throw... And in the end they where forced to draw their sidearms and fire into the rioters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA8bsDS3KuY (at 1:20)
(In total 113 shots was fired. and 93 officers was hurt. And a lot of them seriously.)
Today they rarely use shields.
They use trucks as cover, then rush forward grab the the rioters that is most aggressive and pull them back behind the line of trucks and arrest them. IT is a much more aggressive tactic and it works a lot better Since they actually arrest the main troublemakers.
The very defensive tactics simply didn't work, since they police would newer "win" at best get a "draw" by getting the rioters to go home.
And when you have a shield on one arm it is pretty much impassible to grab a person.
With the new way they can actually arrest the rioters and stop the riot...
I would imagine that a phalanx with overlapping shields have a very hard time moving fast forward and attacking the enemy... where legionaries can do it a lot easier...
Thomas Aagaard
