Night patrols

Yesterday, after the crowd was scattered, almost everyone expected the agressors to try and repeat march 24th. As a member of local people militia, I came at the briefing held in the police headquarters. Police forces seemed to be ready virtually to anything, and there were many militia members supporting them.
As a side fact noticed by one of our guys, the ground floor windows were barred with sandbags - obviously in case of a direct armed attack.

Our unit consisted of 3 cars and about fifteen guys, mostly armed with clubs, reinforcement bars etc.
We were patrolling the city for about 3 hours at night, ready to engage and call support if any disorders would take place. However, everything seemed.. not calm, of course - it seemed stable. We haven't seen many foot policemen during our patrols - they were distributed among the local police depts, patrolling the dark allyes and blocks. However, there were police cars scattered along the main roads, full with armed policemen.

Even more, virtually every store, sometimes even small ones, even some beauty shops, were guarded by groups of civilians, ready to repel marauders. Some guys were on the edge, but generally militiamen were cool, not waving their weapons, not actively searching for trouble. They were citizens who came out to protect the city, that's all.

There was even a small incident describing how well protected the city was - after one of our circles we met at the starting point (every car had its own route) and were talking about what we have seen. In about 5 or 10 minutes a car stopped near us. There were 4 huge guys wearing armor and armed with commando-version of AK74. After a brief talk they explained that some local habitats have called police, and they came to deal with "a loud group of people gathered around a bunch of cars". That was really nice to know such serious guys would come in case of trouble.
Before departing, they even thanked us for what we do, helping them to deal with the situation. Man, that alone was rewarding enough for spending a few hours on the road.

After several patrol circles our units were dismissed, though we all had our cellular phones on. Just in case.

This night have shown that the city is ready to protect itself from any disorders. Last time we just were not ready, that's it.