What do police forces do when their country is invaded? Are they expected to stay and fight, or do they just follow the civvies in any evacuations and let the armies deal with it?
>>28292923
Not expected to fight in a million years unless they have a contingency like the Basij
Evacuate civilians and help with relief efforts, as well as continuing their normal policing duties.
If the situation necessitated increased security details for VIPs and important facilities, they might also be drafted for that, although it would likely still be the military running things.
I doubt you'd see police officers in actual combat, unless the country was truly on the ropes and every able-bodied man was being sent to the front. Even in a total war scenario with conscription, police officers are unlikely to see combat (discounting reservists who work with the police as their day job) since someone has to stay behind to keep the peace at home.
>>28292923
At most you will see them in first response engaging enemies that get too close to the evacuations but other than that the other replies have it.
>>28293034
>>28293041
These pretty much sum up what I would say. The only I see normal beat cops engaging in combat is if they ran into a recon element that slipped past the lines or something, unless of course the war was just going so badly that everybody who could hold a gun was in combat.
I could imagine SWAT and similar paramilitary teams being drafted into some level of combat, though, especially in places like Southern California where they're essentially trained and equipped as light infantry units, but with a particular level of urban combat training that's beyond all but the most specialized military units.
>>28293034
Malaysian here. We have the General Operations Force (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Operations_Force&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjDwsuA7PHJAhUPCY4KHe7SAwIQFggLMAA&usg=AFQjCNHmbYBCPy-KRC5SzjS9cAIuudPa8Q) . This is basically a paramilitary force that the gov use when it doesn't want to commit the military. The GOF was deployed during the Sulu incursion in Sabah. Only when the situation deterioted did the military went it. The GOF is the descendent of the Emergency era anti communist police rangers.
They collaborate.
>then become legitimate targets for La Resistance
>>28292923
First, cops are civilians too. Second, they would probably spend their time shooting dogs that were left in the wake of the fleeing refugees.
>>28294199
Hey someone has to put down Shit-bulls, can't leave them alone, fuckers are worse than dingos, they'll steal your child
>>28292923
Something in between: they're expected to /help/ the civilians evacuate and be the last one out the door. Only when SHTF are they reduced to having to actually fight back.
The cops, like all other municipal and government officials, garbagemen, dogcollectors, etc are part of the civic infrastructure and would be ordered by the existing government to maintain services during the invasion - during the heat of any fighting they usually hole up in their police stations to ride it out - then if the government capitulates, as part of public safety and continuity, they are advised to hand over control to the new occupation forces and government, then officially they carry on under the new regime unless it decides to disarm them and round them up or just sack them as we did with the Iraqi Baath organisations. So then they are the occupying forces police.
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>>28293034
Is invading a crime?
Like, if the police see a Russian paratrooper, are they supposed to say "Hey, stop that. It's illegal here. STOP RESISTING" and then magdump because lolcops?
Or do they do what they do with the FBI "Guess that's not really my jurisdiction. Go about your business tovarisch."
If the police are gonna buy armored vehicles and use military equipment....
No. Of course they won't be expected to fight. Rednecks with hunting rifles will, however, most likely be shamed into firing a few shots at invading troops.
>>28294321
It would be immigration jurisdiction (inside the country without a visa). Local cops would not be expected to help apprehend russian paratroopers.
>>28292923
In the event of invasion cops are far, far better off doing their job, maintaining public order and assisting civilians in evacuating any active combat zones. Police officers are not military, and if they encounter invaders aren't expected to resist. Invaders, in return, should allow police to work as normally as they can in order to avoid an even greater breakdown of public order.
>>28292923
Aside from what's already been said I can imagine any initial invasion being met with police resistance. Caught off guard I'd imagine some cops would be more than willing to put up a fight until matters stabilize as the invasion goes on assuming it lasts that long. There's also the chance of some police breaking off and forming militias to fight but that's no different from other civilians really.
Cops do their usual job. In a country thrown in panic, cops have to work overtime to keep everyone in line. They don't fight shit, this misconception about cops having to be always as heavily armed as soldiers and thus doing the same job is a purely american thing, in a normal working country cops don't even need guns to keep order, shooting people isn't part of their job. NORMALLY. Which is why usually cops are horrible shots.
>>28294393
Police would be ordered to GTFO and help civilians and health services do their jobs while national guard/army gets their shit together.
An untrained soldier is useless, a trained cop isn't. In the event of a SHTF situation of this kind, a cop is more likely to shoot another countryman robbing shit than an invader.
>>28292923
What a police force with military training and guns will do in a place with no law?
Create militias and fuck the native population. That's pretty much what they're doing in the BR favelas.
>>28294356
>It would be immigration jurisdiction (inside the country without a visa). Local cops would not be expected to help apprehend russian paratroopers.
they're carrying illegal weapons though
>>28295286
And thus began the final battle between the ATF and the Russian VDV. It lasted for days. The fires started were endless. At the end the ATF won at the sacrifice of burning nearly everything in LA down to the ground.
Nothing of value was lost.
