British Policing (catch all)

[davidbfpo]

Policing in London is quite different to the rest of the UK, including other big cities and with so many armed incidents, plus the threat of attack, Metropolitan Police officers have long argued - without success - that they should all be armed.

Now their professional body, not a trade union, is holding a ballot:

Questions being put to officers in the survey include:

• Whether they would want to carry a Taser or firearm at all times while on duty
• If they think there should be more firearms officers in London
• If the thought of carrying a gun would make them leave the job

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38547203

Within is this, which I'd not spotted before:

But a recent poll in the wake of the Berlin Christmas market attacks found 58% of the public believed officer should carry guns.

Actually the cited polling was after the Paris 2015 attacks!