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The Rifle 7.62 mm 1A1, or the Ishapore 1A1, is a copy of the L1A1 self-loading rifle. [18] It is produced at Ordnance Factory Tiruchirappalli of the Ordnance Factories Board. [19] It differs from the UK SLR in that the wooden butt-stock uses the butt-plate from the Lee–Enfield with trap [20] for oil bottle and
The history of the Strategic Response Group begins in 1959 with the Tactical Patrol Force (TPF). [2] [3] The Tactical Patrol Force was responsible for patrolling high crime areas and crowd control, a mission which the SRG shares today. Some TPF officers were recruited straight from the police academy, without any prior precinct work.
The militarization of police (paramilitarization of police in some media) is the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers. [1] This includes the use of armored personnel carriers (APCs), assault rifles, submachine guns, flashbang grenades, [2] sniper rifles, and SWAT (special weapons and tactics) teams.
A self-loading rifle or auto-loading rifle is a rifle with an action using a portion of the energy of each cartridge fired to load another cartridge. Self-loading pistols are similar, but intended to be held and fired by a single hand, while rifles are designed to be held with both hands and fired from the shoulder.
This list compiles incidents alleged or proved to be due to police brutality that attracted significant media or historical attention. Many cases are alleged to be of brutality; some cases are more than allegations, with official reports concluding that a crime was committed by police, with some criminal convictions for offences such as grievous bodily harm, planting evidence and wrongful arrest.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the international framework on firearms is composed of three main instruments: the Firearms Protocol, the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (Programme of Action, or PoA) and the International Instrument to Enable States to Identify ...
The two police officers he named were transferred out of the area by June 2018. [100] [101] The Amnesty International India reported that Mugilan had a history of fighting against sand mining mafias and polluting factories. [102] After 100 days after his disappearance his wife alleged of constant harassment by the CB-CID. [103]
A semi-automatic rifle is a rifle that fires a single round each time the trigger is pulled, and uses some of the energy from that firing to load the next round. Semi-automatic rifles are also known as self-loading rifles ('SLR') or auto-loading rifles .