Hey Marge,
I was one of those officers, along with my Colleague
@MadassRubberduck, Now to clear things up, caring more about the helicopter was because, one of them was landed to the left and one to the right in the middle of a road blocking off the roads completely, which could have caused an extremely bad RTC.
To your second point, "Hostage" situation, well the "Hostage" was talking to us just fine, we didn't know it was a hostage situation until you told us he was taken against his will, which was chaotic to say the least because after you said he was a hostage the hostage taker said she (Nalurah) wanted 1000 pounds with which to buy croissants.
The hostage from what I can remember jumped out of the car and became a bit of a hassle to which Madass placed him in restraints and detained him.
The other lad who was there, had an
illegal MXSW Rifle, he was detained for the purpose of having that weapon removed. All this took place after clearing the roads of all Helicopters, again which were illegally parked and in breach of many Aviation laws.
I am extremely sorry that you feel my conduct wasn't becoming of a police officer. However as I am sure you can appreciate, the hostage and yourself made it out of said situation
alive. As for threats to life, the only threat to life at the time was the man with the MXSW no one else in the entire situation was armed, and the hostage taker was again not a hostage taker until after we had already had the confusing and chaotic start.
If you feel my conduct in this situation was in violation of the police rules and guide lines or you feel disrespected, I would invite you to put up a PCC (Police Complaints Commission) Against me, and allow a jury of my colleague, and superiors to make a judgement. The link for that process I will post below for you to guide in making the full complaint if you so wish to do so.
Sorry for any and all grievance caused.
Kind regards,Assistance Chief Constable Reminissions.Altis Police Command.