Armed police turnouts double to 10
Tuesday 11th October 2011, 2:29PM BST.
FIREARMS officers were deployed 10 times during 2010.
That was double the number of call-outs in 2009. On four occasions, it was in response to violent domestic incidents.
Most were in response to emergency calls where someone had a weapon such as a knife and threats to harm had been made.
As well as seven spontaneous call-outs, there were three planned deployments which included two covert operations and a security operation for the British-Irish Council meeting hosted by Guernsey in June 2010.
Inspector JP Le Breton (pictured) explained that one of the deployments had resulted in Anthony Jones being jailed for 15 years in April 2011, after he stabbed and seriously injured his ex-girlfriend’s partner in February 2010.
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After reading a book by PC David Copperfield (pseudonym), I am a firm believer that all police officers should be armed.
If all police had guns then perhaps a drunkard or a gobby chav would think twice about mouthing off if he had a pistol pointed in his general direction.
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@SB that’s the last thing we need. The police have enough powers for dealing with the odd drunkard and gobby kid. They don’t need the ability to shoot them too.
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SB seems to have caught you, Hello. He was obviously making a joke.
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I too think the police should always have guns with them. I dread to think what would happen otherwise if some mad gunman suddenly starts firing on people in the High Street…..
SB and Hello, I doubt that every drunkard or disorderly loudmouth would have a gun pointed at him.
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Doubled eh!
Must be a serious increase in that sort of crime then …………… or maybe simply the new chief trying to justify his spending a huge sum on armoured BMWs
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I agree with Hello. Police officers don’t need guns to deal with drunks. In fact I’d argue that any officer who draws a gun to scare a mouthy drunk is probably in the wrong job.
The current policy serves us well enough. Armed officers should only be deployed in exceptional circumstances.
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i seen the armed respose unit at natwest on the bridge, the cleaners had set the alarm off,,,, Doubled eh????
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Yawn.
It’s the predictable Press release to justify spending ££££££’s.
Were they called to anything that their old transit van couldn’t have dealt with?
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I actually wasn’t joking.
Also, as far as I’m aware the BMW isn’t armoured. The armoured and the armed vehicles are different.
I could be wrong though.
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