The top people in the police force are now openly talking about arming the police in rural areas, as armed police response units can't get to shootings in non urban areas fast enough to deal with them.
Rural police 'could routinely carry guns'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44151242
I was listening to a BBC radio 5Live interview a day or so ago where some top policeman was saying that the days of unarmed police in general is no longer realistic to the age we are living in and belongs to the 'Dixon of Dock Green' era, which for you youngsters were about fifty years ago.
He said todays officers have to deal with 'feral' young men armed with machetes and knives, who are prepared to use them, riding scooters and attacking people on the street.
Coincidentally (or perhaps he knew about the following) this was in todays news -
Teenage '21st century highwaymen' guilty of murder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44170122
Is it about time that we bow to the inevitable and arm all police or do you think that we still have many years of non armed policing to go yet?
Rural police 'could routinely carry guns'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44151242
I was listening to a BBC radio 5Live interview a day or so ago where some top policeman was saying that the days of unarmed police in general is no longer realistic to the age we are living in and belongs to the 'Dixon of Dock Green' era, which for you youngsters were about fifty years ago.
He said todays officers have to deal with 'feral' young men armed with machetes and knives, who are prepared to use them, riding scooters and attacking people on the street.
Coincidentally (or perhaps he knew about the following) this was in todays news -
Teenage '21st century highwaymen' guilty of murder
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44170122
Is it about time that we bow to the inevitable and arm all police or do you think that we still have many years of non armed policing to go yet?