Posted on 09/18/2012 6:34:34 PM PDT by expat1000
Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, were responding to a routine report of a house burglary in the Mottram district of Greater Manchester when they were killed.
Shortly after the incident Dale Cregan, 29, who was being sought in connection with a gun and grenade attack in the city, walked into a police station and was arrested on suspcion of their murder.
It is understood that a number of shots were fired during the incident and a grenade was also detonated.
Sir Peter Fahy, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police paid tribute to the two officers and said it was one of the the "darkest days" in the history of the police service.
At a news conference he also revealed that it was believed Cregan, or someone acting on his behalf had deliberately made a call to the police reporting a burglary in a bid to lure officers to their deaths.
He told a news conference: "We believe either he has made the call or he has got someone else to make the call for the purpose of drawing these two officers to the scene. It would appear that he has deliberately done this in an act of cold blooded murder."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Pal , when someone gets the drop on you or hits from behind there’s not much you can do.
“I say, do stop!’’.
You can’t stop stupid.
I don’t care what anyone says. Women dying in combat or on the job ain’t right.
Beats dying of cancer.
Not a knock against the tenacious survival instincts of women.
>>I don’t care what anyone says. Women dying in combat or on the job ain’t right.
Nobody forced them to become cops.
>> Nobody forced them to become cops.
I don’t care what anyone says. Chivalry is not lost.
What?
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