{"id":82374,"date":"2026-08-25T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/82374\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T16:00:15","slug":"firing-point-inside-the-metropolitan-polices-firearms-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/82374\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Point: Inside the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s firearms unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Firing Point: Inside the Metropolitan Police&#039;s firearms unit\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L1jxUi4LfMw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFiring Point: Inside the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s firearms unit<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSky News home editor Jason Farrell goes inside the secretive firearms unit of the Metropolitan Police to find out how they make split-second life-or-death decisions, and see how they react to the news that one of their own is charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>00:00: Firing Point<br \/>\n02:23: Part One: Under Pressure<br \/>\n13:03: Part Two: Officer In The Dock<br \/>\n23:20: Part Three: Honestly Held Belief<br \/>\n35:55: Part Four: Police Culture<\/p>\n<p>#metpolice #uk #firearms #skynews<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Why not listen to one of our podcasts? This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy or Ed Conway&#8217;s Stuff Matters, available here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/stuff-matters<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firing Point: Inside the Metropolitan Police&#8217;s firearms unit Sky News home editor Jason Farrell goes inside the secretive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8],"tags":[59950,46588,6658,66733,66735,4993,7569,66734,490,2954,2949,1189,31,1793,6915,5752,296,52,279],"class_list":["post-82374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sky-news","tag-armed-officers","tag-armed-police","tag-death","tag-firearms","tag-firing-point","tag-gun-crime","tag-guns","tag-james-farrell","tag-london","tag-met-police","tag-metropolitan-police","tag-murder","tag-news","tag-police","tag-policing","tag-shooting","tag-sky-news","tag-terrorism","tag-uk"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117157016635809873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}