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The Great British Copper Capture

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The Great British Copper Capture	comment	The average British bobby does not carry a gun, except in Northern Ireland and certain parts of Nottingham and London. Only about 7% of coppers are licensed to use firearms. The rest are Lawman Baton types. This means that when they encounter a criminal who does have a gun (which may either be a replica gun or real), they are often in rather serious trouble because a stab vest (body armour designed to stop knife attacks) cannot stop bullets. In most cases, the coppers know that there are likely to be guns involved and will send the Armed Response Units (police officers complete with Bulletproof Vests, helmets, and Heckler and Koch MP5 submachine guns) in first. However, sometimes they get it wrong and a gun ends up being produced. The copper ends up with a villain pointing a gun at them. The situation can go many ways from here: It turns into a perp-and-weapon situation. The Armed Response Units turn up and interrupt things, occasionally fatally, for the villain. The copper actually gets shot during an escape attempt. They get taken hostage for varying periods of time. The last of these has four outcomes: The copper talks down the gunman and arrests him. The gunman admits to the crime and shoots himself. The gunman pretends to attack the copper, thus successfully attempting Suicide by Cop. The gunman opens up his heart to the copper and, after making himself sympathetic to the audience, gets tragically shot by a trigger-happy sniper. Such situations, fortunately, happen far more often in fiction than in Real Life. Contrast Armed Altruism, a character giving their sole weapon to someone they want safe in immediate combat. See Old-Fashioned Copper, for another trope about British bobbies; in this case, when they are characterized as being morally upstanding law enforcers.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_1492f7d8	comment	The Parole Officer: Played With hilariously, since Garden is a very pacifistic person and has to be constantly prompted by his "prisoner" to maintain the act.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_4cc06582	comment	Hot Fuzz: The source of much of Danny Butterman's annoyance is that he's never handled a gun in a real situation - he gets to in the final act of the film, and this trope happens at least four times - the last time with his father.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_5436bd4	comment	The Sweeney: Inspector Regan's classic line. He deliberately punches the suspect full in the face, breaking his nose, scowls at him, and concludes the arrest thusly while pulling the perp up by his lapels:
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_738fcaf1	comment	The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Played tragically when Barbara Havers gets shot in the line of duty at the end of series 3. Since there are 2.5 subsequent series, she quite obviously gets better. This does not stop Lynley from flipping his shit over it.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_7dcdbde1	comment	The Great Ace Attorney: In case four of Resolve, Jigoku shoots the British detective Gregson and frames van Zieks for the crime. As part of the cover-up, he makes it look like van Zieks pulled out the gun in front of Gregson before the murder.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_9ab8b129	comment	The Blue Lamp: This classic British Bobby film shows loveable cop PC George Dixon getting killed while trying to talk a young "cosh boy" into handing over his gun. George was so loveable that he was in fact brought back to life for the show Dixon of Dock Green, the first and perhaps best-loved, major Police Procedural on British telly. His catchphrase, "Evenin' all", has outlived both the series and the actor who played him.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_a309575c	comment	Jonathan Creek: Happens in at least one episode. Surprisingly, Jonathan ends the standoff - guess how. Go on. He throws a palmed playing card in the guy's face. Yeah.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_ac5f68d	comment	Murphy's Law: In the fifth season, this trope gets fulfilled to its maximum level. A police officer, who ended up being gang-raped after an undercover operation went wrong, enters the police station with a gun (having already killed the head of the people trafficking ring responsible) and takes the Chief Superintendent (who she blamed for him getting off) hostage. In the process she shoots a detective in the arm, the Chief Superintendent in the leg, and then herself in the head.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_b8d8968e	comment	George was so loveable that he was in fact brought back to life for the show Dixon of Dock Green, the first and perhaps best-loved, major Police Procedural on British telly. His catchphrase, "Evenin' all", has outlived both the series and the actor who played him.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_c9fecd11	comment	The Bill: Happens at least once a month. At least twice, a gun has been produced inside Sun Hill nick. A running joke among fans of the show is that Smithy, having been in the army and in the CO19 armed police unit (and naturally, therefore, involved in most plotlines involving firearms) is something of a bullet magnet.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_da52a723	comment	Rivers of London: In book four, we essentially get the magic version when Peter and Lesley are taken prisoner by the Faceless Man's mooks and Dragon.
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The Great British Copper Capture / int_e6318baf	comment	Midsomer Murders: When Barnaby arrives to to arrest the killer in "Saints and Sinners", they grab Kam and hold a knife to her throat; holding Barnaby and Nelson at bay long enough to deliver their Motive Rant. Barnaby eventually distracts the killer long enough for Kam to break free, at which point the killer is collared by Barnaby and Nelson.
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The Great British Copper Capture	processingCategory2	Guns and Gunplay Tropes
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Hot Fuzz / int_32816ab	type	The Great British Copper Capture
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Rivers of London / int_32816ab	type	The Great British Copper Capture
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Life on Mars (2006) / int_32816ab	type	The Great British Copper Capture
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