Posted on 05/16/2018 4:45:40 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Frontline police officers will carry handguns for the first time to cope with the terrorist threat in rural areas, under plans being considered by chief constables.
Officers responding to emergencies in remote locations where firearm units cannot be quickly deployed would be routinely armed.
Simon Chesterman, of the National Police Chiefs Council, said that the proposal was being considered in areas of England and Wales where it was prohibitively expensive to have fully trained specialist units on standby.
It will be seen as controversial because Britain has a tradition of unarmed policing and less than 10 per cent of officers are trained to use weapons.
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It will take something comparable to WW-II. Brits had few firearms when the Nazis were bombing the carp out of them, and sending infiltrators ashore. The people of the USA had to send them rifles, handguns, and shotguns, because the British people had mostly been pacified and disarmed by their own government.
and the Brit government destroyed most of those donated American guns, The British have long been denied basic rights.
In the UK countryside, when minutes count, the police are only hours away.
Let the citizens arm themselves and handle their own personal defense.
the reason Britain has been able to get away with having unarmed police, is that in general British subjects were civilized. They’ve now imported a bunch of uncivilized muslims and africans into the country. That is a recipe for a dramatic increase in violence of all sorts. They are reaping the whirlwind they sowed.
Manchester Police Chief opposes officers routinely carrying guns
Policing in the modern sense was introduce by Robert Peel, British Prime Minister in the 1840s. Before that there had been only Parish Constables, with much local variation and inconsistency in the way they were appointed and operated. Peel’s new-style police were colloquially known as ‘Peelers’ (a usage which didn’t survive into the 20th century or ‘Bobbies’, which did.
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