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Dealing with intruders at Haneda Airport

March 13th, 2009 by James

Police at Haneda Airport put on a show for the media to demonstrate how they would deal with knife-wielding intruders:

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Comment by Harvey
2009-03-13 12:33:23

Wow that was pretty intense! They’re not messing around.

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Comment by jmadsen
2009-03-13 13:42:04

yeah, first time they actually looked like they knew what they were doing, instead of the usual Keystone Cops

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Comment by Matt
2009-03-13 13:56:51

I hope it’s not the same guy who get bitten by the dog at each police show. Because it’s always the same ridiculous fake attacks: “ho, let’s steal this bag in front of the policeman” “I am a terrorist, I am going to kill everybody with my toothpick”.

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Comment by Mike Shea
2009-03-13 17:15:26

Only a deranged salaryman would use a knife. A real terrorist would probably be caught as he died laughing!

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Comment by Nihonnokoto
2009-03-14 03:06:59

Good remark.

In this situation, the policement are ready to attack because they know the scenario.

Especially for the robbing scene.

I am not quite sure that they are so reactive, yet I have never seen them in action in airports.

And I believe that we cannot compare the policemen in streets and the ones in airports. The training may not be the same.

Anyway, even in my country fake demonstrations are odd.

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Comment by Enrique
2009-03-14 02:39:32

wow! they rushed in even at the expense of the hostage!!! i worry for the hostage, but normally this is how i like to see situations like this go down! not like here in america where one guy with a knife requires ten snipers and an entire division of the army!

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Comment by Snake
2009-03-14 05:43:23

Hmm They could have easily taken him down with some basic CQC.

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Comment by Gaijinocchio
2009-03-16 14:10:01

Weee! It’s like a high school play! Next do a terrorist wielding nerve gas! How about someone with a shotgun he got from the Yakuza? Or a maniac with a suicide bomb!
How would you take down a blubbery man swimming in a restricted pool and lobbing rocks about, J-police?! I feel safer already.

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