
MANCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 29: An armed response officer of Greater Manchester Police poses with a Heckler and Koch G36 assualt rifle during the first ever Vanguard Conference, a joint Greater Manchester Police and security industry venture to reduce the number and severity of commercial and cash-in-transit robberies. 29 January, 2008, Manchester, England. Police and members of the security industry are holding the conference to agree strategies and tactics to reduce armed commercial and cash-in-transit robberies. The conference comes in the wake of the sentencing of five robbers following a £53m raid at a Securitas depot in Kent. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)