Featuring an interview with Tony Long, a leading police marksman who pulled the trigger on three different operations but then found himself charged with murder, and the officers who tracked down and caught fugitive Raoul Moat.
The armed siege is one of the riskiest scenarios any firearms officer will have to deal with. Those on the know recall the longest siege in police history, a Christmas Day stand-off and an aeroplane hijack.
Police must use the difficult hard stop manoeuvre to intercept armed criminals on the move. In one story, this insulted in a fatal shooting.
We tell the story of the hard stop, one of the police's most difficult tactical maneuvers used to intercept armed men as they travel by car. We unpick one such incident that ended with a fatal shooting, and an armed policeman on trial for murder.
Hugo Speer
Narrator
Benjamin Hirsch
Director
Darrell Brown
Producer
Rick Murray
