*RARE* MULTI FORCE PUBLIC ORDER CONVOY!! - Responses to Extinction Rebellion Protest In London!!

[@999EmergencyResponses]

OMG! THAT CONVOY IS INSANE!!!! Great catches overall mate! And congrats on 1K you deserve it :D

[@kaneowen9671]

Its a police van?

[@staffsemergresp]

Excellent catch, this is extremely rare 👌

[@nicholasstokes8330]

You used the term 'violent', I've not seen or heard about any violence.

[@mostlybikes]

It surprised me as well, as I believe using violence against others is strictly against the principles of XR

[@greatportlandstreetmodelra6513]

I would say violent is the wrong word, but it sure got heated, as every protest does. Amongst those people are radicals, that dont agree with the government, so they clash with frontline police officers.

[@HeavyHanded]

You are not looking very hard, have come across several videos while just scrolling unrelated stuff on twitter.

[@nicholasstokes8330]

@@HeavyHanded With respect there were other protests going on at the same time in the UK which dis have violent element amongst them. My brother attended the XR protests and I can assure you he did not report any violence, in fact the police appeared to be at a loss as what to do as there was no violence to confront.

[@k9officerft434]

They did glue themselves to the road

[@kbhudrykning5843]

1:51 forgot the blue ones, excellent video!

[@DashDriver-z1r]

Yeh weird my be a build issue or supposed to have blue dash light

[@chrisedwards4917]

Stand back everyone, the Scousers are here!

[@jake_2319]

1:50 Howcome the van only has white lights in the grille? Seems a bit strange not having blue lights 🤷‍♂️

[@BlueMattie]

Because, as we all know, police are white supremacists

[@Dosedmonkey]

I'm guessing they are effected by the import shortages from the far east too. So much things out of stock currently.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Because its just work van, it has a light and siren for this matter and its barely ever needed to use its lights

[@Skyrock533]

What are those unmarked Sprinters used for

[@DBGardening]

Great one , congrats on 1K !

[@ThamesValley999]

Thank you!!

[@thekettlehead]

*hippy bangs a bongo drum* met police: hold my beer

[@lesthiele4921]

That wax a awsome video, many thanks for sharing, good tk see so many different vehicles being usec.

[@nphil93992]

The met should send XR a bill for all the costs they incurred. XR may have a point but bringing traffic to a halt just adds to the carbon emissions of London's traffic

[@thamesvalley999backup2]

Great video congrats on 1k subs mate

[@ThamesValley999]

Cheers mate!

[@AshleyLarkin]

Awesome Catches. Congrats on 1k

[@ThamesValley999]

Thank you very much!

[@aladeengbtv2186]

They protest about pollution etc but look at how many diesel cars/vans, including some driving from up north have to be used because of their protest, not to mention fuel for 2 helicopters! Not very well thought out in my mind if they're trying to reduce pollution

[@07epicfail]

I’ve noticed a lot of emergency vehicles have number plates beginning BX do you know why so many are registered in Birmingham?

[@ThamesValley999]

When the vehicles are bought in bulk they all usually have the same registration as its where the company who sourced them are able to get that many from with similar number plates. If multiple forces go to the same provider alot of the time they will get the same reg prefix as some other forces.

[@central1850]

As info.above. The met. get their vehicle 's prepared and decommissioning done by Babock on.a site in Walsall, West Midlands..hence the Birmingham plates.

[@simgaming999]

congrats on 1k

[@ThamesValley999]

Thank you :)

[@Chivvy147EmergencyVideos]

Amazing catch!

[@ThamesValley999]

Thanks for watching!!

[@wadsonnn]

For changing the siren, they have to use the horn???. In Spain we have a command to change the type of siren.

[@hyperfluff_folf]

The horn is sounded when changing but i think you control it with a seperate button

[@Djnffnoeosmfasjjd]

@@hyperfluff_folf some have a stick next to the wheel but the vast majority are controlled by horn

[@northoltflightwatch]

Most mental thing I seen all week

[@ThamesValley999]

Ennit 😎😎

[@RussianSpecialCars29]

WoooW! Nice catch!

[@SomersetEmergencyResponses999]

1k well done

[@ThamesValley999]

Cheers! :)

[@sebastianoo1380]

What's the van at 1:50? Never seen it before, great video btw!

[@ThamesValley999]

Some form of TSG Van i believe. Thank you!

[@thefiestaguy8831]

I'm serving in the Met. I policed this event several days last week. The van in question is unlikely to be TSG, since they don't use unmarked vehicles as it effectively defeats the purpose. The van is more likely to be the specialist team who turn up and remove protestors from buildings, or unglue them from the road, or glass buildings, etc. There's a clip on YT somewhere from last year of one of the met's extraction teams being lifted up on a crane type machine and attaching an XR protestor to himself from the top of something quite tall, before being lowered down and then being arrested by officers.

[@k9officerft434]

@@thefiestaguy8831 I still can’t believe they glued themselves to the road

[@thefiestaguy8831]

@@k9officerft434 Makes it harder for them to be removed, the officers can't just pick them from the floor once the glue's set because it will rip their skin off, breach of their rights of course, so they deal with it slow time, get engineering teams in who specialise in cutting and removal to deal with it, once they are either cut free or unglued, then an officer will do the arrest.

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

@@thefiestaguy8831 I'd just get the paint stripper and a scrapper, they don't deserve anything better

[@holdencross5904]

These sorts of things are a waste of police time and resources that will undoubtedly lead to people complaining about the police not investigating cases. This is why (besides lack of funding and manpower). Because of stupid protests like this dragging them away from investigating crimes.

[@artie2070]

Great footage👍👍

[@andrewrescue31]

Super video!!

[@ThamesValley999]

Thank you!!

[@bluelineairsoftesc4975]

Only front white lights on the unmarked van at 1:50 strange

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Blue lights aren't necessarily required, it just needs some form of warning lights. The newer Met Astra's and the Pegeout 308 SW's have flashing white LED's in the grille, and the 308 has two flashing LED lights mounted to the front of the grill, but no flashing blues on the grille itself, only on the top lightbar. A bright white flash often stands out more than a bright blue flash, since white tends to be more noticeable than a blue flash, especially in the daytime.

[@anthonykinney28]

Fantastic video. Got some information come contex Wikipedia about climate change never seen that on my iPad.

[@Kwilson2025]

MerPol in London Abit far from home

[@hamishashcroft3233]

There wasn’t any violence. The whole point about XR is that it’s completely non violent

[@eclipsegfxable]

Not the point, they're jobless dicks who block traffic, thus causing more pollution ironically.

[@arthurbeverton8236]

@@eclipsegfxable well most of xr is retired doctors, lawyers ect or young people that probs have jobs...

[@jahmah519]

All Brummie reg plates, why is this?

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Because the Met buy their vehicles from Babcocks engineering, formerly S Macneille & sons, of Walsall, West Midlands. Babcocks buy hundreds of vehicles each month from various manufacturers at near cost price, kit them out, and then deliver them to various police stations across several different forces. As they buy a large quantity of vehicles, they get significant cost reduction meaning they can buy them at near enough cost price, whereas if the force bought them, by the time they've then fitted the equipment, (lightbar, siren, decals, IDR (a form of telematics black box) radios, control units, wiring, etc, the cost is significantly higher. Essentially it saves the police forces a LOT of money, just fitting a car out with all the kit required runs into the thousands of pounds, that's AFTER you've actually bought the car. Babcocks also do repairs and maintenance on the fleet, a lot of forces across the country use similar methods, but some have their own repair workshops and it's done in house.

[@k9officerft434]

Aye aren’t these the same guys that glued themselves to the sidewalk

[@encoreunefois1X]

Just how violent were these protesters? I suppose some of that tambourine playing could be said to have constituted a serious assault.

[@josephmoran231]

Hey, I was in London or a family trip quite recent to this video's date, and saw some of this response, mainly by Tate Modern.

[@georgievarley-pillman8339]

1:50 😁 awesome van

[@superiorwind1445]

my mans cam can zoom all the way into the heli like- *h o w*

[@trx_gaming6442]

The helis were low that's how. And also it's easier to get the full detail of police helis during the day and especially when they fly low. It's nothing to do with the cam

[@BucksBlueLightVids]

Good video

[@ThamesValley999]

Thanks

[@supertrinigamer]

I don't get these people. It's coppers they're putting at risk...

[@KOSZALIN998]

Super

[@martinprady3300]

Full of lies, very disappointed ☹️

[@061zgz]

Great!

[@tonyhitchen28]

I see one of or Matrix meat wagons was down there, they're bad news them guys, seen a lot of them up here in Liverpool lol 🤣😅

[@elliottblaauw4575]

there was no violence towards police ftom extinction rebellion

[@fozzzu8309]

Are SWAH officers basicaly just scaffolders who are also police oficers :D

[@robnewman6101]

Law & Order. Constabulary. Police.

[@cobraboy4182]

Keep the noise down i hear it in Australië

[@samwalker8893]

Congratulations on 1k? 25 at least are you with different accounts, look at any of their videos, even logs in to the fake accounts in same order reading down the list each time

[@ThamesValley999]

“0 subscribers” oh and “1 comment on this channel” Okay buddy. Believe what you wanna believe 🤣🤣

[@melaniewhite861]

Good shots well reported

[@shanehewitt8956]

"Moniter" .....

[@Alucard-gt1zf]

Yeah so they don't get the shit kicked out of them

[@hamishashcroft3233]

I’ve never seen so many police as I did at the XR protests. So many random hire vans as well because they ran out of met vans I guess. A completely over the top response

[@stevencrouch6036]

My guess is the response is so big because they know the public like the last time these idiots done these criticised the police's response & in some cases took matters into there own hands.

[@thefiestaguy8831]

Not overkill at all, I was sat on London bridge a few days back on standby policing this. 400-500 XR protestors were being escorted by officers and tried to gain entry to London Bridge station, the 10 BTP officers that were there refused them entry, had they kicked off or tried to storm the station, they'd have had no chance. Definitely NOT over the top, it's easy to criticise as an outsider looking in, try being there.

[@arthurbeverton8236]

eh? i was there, no violence towards police

[@DashDriver-z1r]

Police play political games with these protesters and prioritize their right to protest over their job to prevent breach of the peace and keep the m25 moving. This woke game the met and man6 forces have played has not worked and now we have senior officers who can't police effectively.

[@exb.r.buckeyeman845]

The HEAVY HANDED NOISEY BRIGADE are at it again. Loads of noise spreads fear.

[@bennyhill4228]

Wow videos of police vehicles how exciting is that....

[@poppiefleur7425]

Climate people are not voilent.

[@poppiefleur7425]

In what way

[@k9officerft434]

@@poppiefleur7425 they did glue themselves to the road