Sneaky pricks! Thanks for the head up.
" I remember reading about ten years of so ago that the police officers were offered weapons, but voted against it."
Not quite.............
... What ACTUALLY happened was that we had a spate of unarmed Officers getting killed and seriously injured by armed criminal vermin. There was an outcry from various people saying "enough is enough".
So the Police Federation of England Wales did their little "poll" stunt. The government and the Fed wanted a NO answer and this is how they got that NO answer.
They sent out tick box yes or no "questionnaires" to a selected few Officers across the country. ...
No they sent them to Child protection units, Control room staff, crime management unit staff, any kind of non front line office wallah they could come up with.
That is how they got their big resounding NO THANKS answer that they wanted. ...
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Yep, you got totally skrewed.
If they really wanted a useful answer the question would have been: "Who needs a weapon on the street and wants to carry one? OK, Officer, here it is."
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Yep, you got totally skrewed.
If they really wanted a useful answer the question would have been: "Who needs a weapon on the street and wants to carry one? OK, Officer, here it is."
As I recall, the UK doesn't have any armed citizens because there are no citizens.
They are subjects of the Realm, which (despite the Magna Carta) means the people are subject to the whims of power.
If you arm the subjects on a level as low as beat cops, then reality might dawn on them that citizenship is preferable to subjugation.
We started shooting British soldiers when we figured that part out about 240 years ago.
. . . They raped and plundered the colonies for ages, but it has come back to haunt them now. . .