From Scotsman.com:
Glasgow Airport had no armed police on duty when an attempted terrorist attack was launched last Saturday, Strathclyde Police admitted yesterday.
While both Aberdeen and Edinburgh airports had armed officers present following the attempted bombings in London, Glasgow, Scotland’s busiest airport, was left unprotected.
Last night, a spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police explained that a mobile armed response team was on duty but was not at the airport.
She said: “Strathclyde Police always has a firearms capability ready and [the officers] were on mobile patrol. We only station armed officers at the airport when the national threat level is at critical.”
Yet the decision was criticised by Margaret Curran, Scottish Labour’s justice spokeswoman, who said: “Had people died, we would be asking, ‘Where were our armed police?’ I would urge the chief constable to urgently review this policy.”
Wow, I sure feel safer about flying in or out of Glasgow now.
Only a select few officers are “firearms capable”, and they weren’t even at the airport? Where were they and what was more important that protecting the thousands of innocent people flying there?
This is beyond absurd.
