Absolutely - this is pretty much an official SIA thing. Their website talks about "the extended police family (http://www.the-sia.org.uk/home/about_sia/police_family.htm)".
It's not a bad thing in some aspects, but I think it's very much part of the systemic problem that both the legislative and economic environments mean that events such as Pride have to draw from the same pool of manpower as Stones concerts and Old Firm matches.
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Date: 2008-07-06 11:46 pm (UTC)It's not a bad thing in some aspects, but I think it's very much part of the systemic problem that both the legislative and economic environments mean that events such as Pride have to draw from the same pool of manpower as Stones concerts and Old Firm matches.