REFRESHER COURSE
Armed Police Squads
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Nov. 20.
After two years’ work and without having fired a shot on active duty, police armed offenders’ squads are to hold their first refresher course next month.
Sixty men will attend the course at Papakura Military Camp from December 4 to 11. Eighteen officers and n.c.o.s will go into camp first for special lectures on the first four days. The others will then move in for lectures and a wide range of exercises. The theme for the course will be tactics to meet all situations.
The squads will work alone and with police dogs, in open country and in city areas and will employ the various weapons in their arsenal—including tear gas. A total of six squads, two from Auckland and one each from Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin will attend the course. An organiser said the emphasis in the exercises would be on stealth surprise, and the minimum use of firepower. In their normal duty the man who make up the squads do not carry arms. They get their weapons only when an armed offender is reported.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31223, 22 November 1966, Page 9
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