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Should All Policemen And Women Be Armed
going on yesterdays and previous terror attacks.
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The first thing you'd have to consider Emmie, is do you want to put a lot of decent police officers out of a job. Among other things an armed officer has to pass "psychologic
17:29 Thu 23rd Mar 2017
In Spain ALL police officers are armed and one thinks nothing of it, however, although I have never heard of innocent people being shot accidentally, I am sure that it has happened.
If the dead policeman had been armed, who knows, depending upon the crime incident details, he may well have been alive today.
If the dead policeman had been armed, who knows, depending upon the crime incident details, he may well have been alive today.
I think it has to be their decision, they are surveyed regularly on the subject and the numbers who want to be armed are surprisingly low - I imagine that fluctuates each time their is an incident such as this one.
Then there is this problem...
//However, police chiefs say they have struggled to recruit firearms officers, claiming that many fear they could spend years under investigation if they used their weapon in the line of duty.//
Then there is this problem...
//However, police chiefs say they have struggled to recruit firearms officers, claiming that many fear they could spend years under investigation if they used their weapon in the line of duty.//
PC Palmer was a member of the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection Command (PaDP), a special operations branch of the London Metropolitan Police Service responsible for protecting UK embassies, diplomats, and the parliamentary estate.
The unit is an armed command, meaning that most of its officers are "authorised firearms officers" (AFOs). ...
But not all PaDP officers carry weapons on duty. The Metropolitan Police's Acting deputy commissioner Mark Rowley said in a statement on Wednesday:
"Our parliamentary protection team are a combination of armed and unarmed officers doing different roles, and sadly the officer who lost his life today was unarmed.
"He was supported by armed colleagues who shot and killed the attacker. [The attacker] tried to enter parliament and was stopped at the gate."
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg reported that Defence Secretary Michael Fallon's bodyguard may have been the officer responsible for shooting the attacker dead.
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The unit is an armed command, meaning that most of its officers are "authorised firearms officers" (AFOs). ...
But not all PaDP officers carry weapons on duty. The Metropolitan Police's Acting deputy commissioner Mark Rowley said in a statement on Wednesday:
"Our parliamentary protection team are a combination of armed and unarmed officers doing different roles, and sadly the officer who lost his life today was unarmed.
"He was supported by armed colleagues who shot and killed the attacker. [The attacker] tried to enter parliament and was stopped at the gate."
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg reported that Defence Secretary Michael Fallon's bodyguard may have been the officer responsible for shooting the attacker dead.
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