Police departments in war time

>>33733317
>k/, you know all about war history
your assumptions are wrong

Yes, in the 2016 Turkish coup :^)

Seriously, if you count the heavily paramilitary police units some dictatorships like to form, it's probably happened at some point during a coup or civil war.

However in a real war police officers fit for active service are often called up and the police are staffed with unfit men. That's where the "flatfoot" nickname comes from. If a town or city is close to the frontlines any local cops capable of fighting will probably have been drafted with the old men and boys into ersatz army units like Volkssturm.

>>33733389
Most of those soldiers voluntarily gave up though because surprise soldiers have conciences and killing civilians is kinda bad.

Police didn't really do that great in combat though given the casualty rates. A lot of cops got killed in the early gun fights, and there was no way they could have stopped fucking tanks and helos from wrecking their shit.

Hell the coup could have won if they shot down Erdogans plane WHICH they had in their jet fighter's gunsights.

>>33733540
Implying Erdogan didn't organize the coup as to purge the military.

>>33733540

the :^) was meant to imply the turkish coup part was a joke

>>33733317
during the early days of the spanish civil war gaurdia de assalto (gendarmes) attacked barracks like 70% of them fought for the repubilicans, they helped prevent the coup form being successful in many areas. (altough some historians say the workers miltias played a larger part)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardia_de_Asalto

>The rebel troops were attacked by snipers and with home-made bombs. The anarchists built barricades with paving stones in order to block the city center, and the Guardia Civil and the Assault Guards joined them against the rebel troops.[4]

> On the 20th, the barracks was stormed by a mixture of workers and Guardias de Asalto ("assault guards", an urban police force) loyal to the government, as well as five battalions of the Communist-led Antifascist Worker and Peasant Militias (MAOC) —one of these battalions became the famous "Fifth Regiment"[4]— totaling about 10,000 fighters. The fighting was chaotic, and on several occasions some soldiers within the barracks indicated their willingness to surrender, only for other troops to keep firing at the attackers, killing those who had broken cover to take them prisoner.

During the invasion of Panama, one SAW gunner killed 60 Panamanian cops and militia in 6 minutes. Police aren't trained to fight soldiers. They're trained to arrest people and give out tickets.

http://www.rcmpolice.ca/wwii.html

German police fought in Berlin

>>33733317
During the Transnistrian war Moldovan police units had to fight russian mercenaries and rebels who were backed by the russian army