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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
They are emmie. They have that controversial device called a taser which has left more than one person dead. Given the location of the atrocity, I really do wonder why time elapsed before an officer shot him in view of the fact that I'm pretty sure that there were officers in the vicinity with tasers. You need to be in close proximity to someone to stab them. Where were the tasers? Who showed disarming skills? I thought all officers were taught this sort of stuff during training.
I believe not and that most would not wish to be. They all still carry truncheons, I think, for self-defence. Criminals of all kinds might feel the need to arm themselves for their own defence and so it escalates. Next-door neighbour, policeman, has no wish to be armed.
On the other hand, all gendarmes and local police are armed in France, so I got used to feeling comfortable with seeing them around, but there are a lot more guns around in France and it was quite usual, when out for a walk to exchange greetings with people carrying very powerful hunting rifles (it has to be a powerful rifle to stop a boar).
On the other hand, all gendarmes and local police are armed in France, so I got used to feeling comfortable with seeing them around, but there are a lot more guns around in France and it was quite usual, when out for a walk to exchange greetings with people carrying very powerful hunting rifles (it has to be a powerful rifle to stop a boar).
At the end of the day, I was taught knife disarming skills during compulsory courses at my place of work. The police are taught to far greater competance in the skill than I was. I fail to understand why it was necessary to wait for an armed officer and I'm basing this solely on a minute by minute account of who was where and when that has come to light since yesterday.
Arming the police with weapons that fire bullets would be a retrograde step and take us down to the level of the criminal.
Arming the police with weapons that fire bullets would be a retrograde step and take us down to the level of the criminal.
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emmie, I have no idea whether the officer was "armed" or not. The point I was making that I'm certain his colleagues in close proximity were "armed" with tasers. If the officer had no time to use his truncheon, what were his colleagues doing at this point? Whilst operational aspects of this event will undergo review, I think an inquiry will occur over what happened and heads will roll.
