Originally Posted by Derek

Nonsense. In Peels day the original officers were routinely armed with a sword and firearm, until relatively recently officers on night duty could sign out a gun and arm themselves.

And in a previous thread the number of authorised firearms officers was shown, it wasn't a lot at all.



He was never charged, they were still gathering evidence.



It might be callous of me but I'd prefer that than having two dead officers, from an ambush point of view they might still have died but at least they would have had a chance.



Eh? When was this?



And how long might that be. Struggling with an axe man waiting for backup is not fun. I've been in that position and firearms officers could easily be 1/2 hour away, that's a long time to run round a car in circles.