Chief Bobby Marlecl's mouth dropped, as he could not believe what he was seeing. He had personally run that scenario more than once, and never perfectly cleared it, as at least one hostage died, or one or more of the robbers escaped.
While banks did not see as much traffic as they did back before the widespread implementation of the purely digital Credits as the standard form of currency on Vlaras, they still existed and held valuable assets and dealt with those who liked gold coins.
So the scenario wasn't something that a LEO or NEO did not have a slim chance of encountering and was a rather straightforward example of a hostage situation with more than one armed individual.
Other than the relic weapons it was something many officers had experienced, as many Mod pushers employed hostage tactics to keep their dealers in line, making raids on manufacturing compounds and storehouses difficult.