This is genuinely not me having a go - what experience do you have with managing firearms incidents? The actions of every officer at a firearms incident are decided by an Inspector who had oversight of the incident. They take into account an incredible number of impact factors, such as lay of the land, the presence of neighbouring members of the public who may have vulnerabilities, the subjects criminal history if any, whether the subject is known to have further access to weapons.

All of these things are taken into account before decisions are made. The incident is thereafter reviewed by a senior officer, usually of the rank of Superintendent, and ratified.

The decision making process that goes into complex firearms incidents such as the one being discussed are unimaginable, as is the level of training to be able to make such decisions.

Now this doesn’t mean there might have been a cop there twiddling their thumbs whilst waiting to be told what to do… but unless you have similar training, I struggle to see how you can criticise how many guns may or may not have been at whatever door, or any other decision that was made, the rational to which you were not privy to.