Originally Posted by
Lioneye
To have armed police attend a drunk and disorderly is overkill.
The passengers are unarmed & at most a taser may be necessary in extreme circumstances.
Armed police are there to deal with terrorist attacks or incidents involving weapons or threat to life.
If you were a terrorist group wondering how to acquire guns whilst airside this wouldn't be a bad ploy to have them brought to you.
Who’s to say that they wouldn’t break one of the said duty free bottles and use it as a weapon?
it’s been known in the past.
overkill…… I think not.