Admiral Cod: The British South Africa Police (BSAP)

11 November 2014

The British South Africa Police (BSAP)

Items in my Rhodesiana collection acquired in South Africa and England

3 comments:

Robert said...: The BSAP PATUs (Police Anti-Terrorist Units) weren't that bad but they were a case of too little too late.
Show all the pretty books you want...if its about the BSAP in action it's either a fiction book or 90% fiction. Why is it that the less effective a unit is the more books you see written about it?
The BSAP should have recognized early on (1968) that Rhodesia was in a fight for it's life and that they should have suspended the rules of civil procedure and evidence. There were cases of "terrs" captured by the Army and freed by the Courts on technicalities after being handed over to the BSAP who gave credence to their most outrageous claim. Those "tears" used the pre-cursor of today's nig-nog's stock answer..."I didn't does nuffin". Only difference is today we don't pay attention to them back then the BSAP made YOU prove, in wartime and in a wartime setting, that they did "do summin".
You can't preserve what they called a crime scene (we called it a battlefield) and carry out the mission or engage in a fire fight at the same time...enough said
HAPPY 50TH RHODESIA...RHODESIA WILL NEVER DIE...; 11 November, 2014 09:34
Keir said...: The Rhodesian ensign hangs in my classroom outside Munich; 50th anniversary of the UDI next year...; 11 November, 2014 11:09
Robert said...: 49 years since UDI....RHODESIA WAS SUPER...
Miss the camaraderie we had in Grey's Scouts, the parties (when I could get to Salisbury on a weekend) at Robin Moore's unofficial US Embassy and the white people of Rhodesia.
Always proud to have served Rhodesia as one of America's "Crippled Eagles" for 5 years and I brought home the best souvenir of all from Rhodesia....my wife of 37 years...what a mess of it Mugabe has made.; 11 November, 2014 12:24

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