Thread: 2 Police Officers shot and killed in Manchester
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Old 20-09-2012, 14:12   #88
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Re: 2 Police Officers shot and killed in Manchester
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Does that poll include the pen pushers,ACPO types and other office dwellers who don't serve the front line? I would guess so. Just go to the usual police blogs to see the general mood amongst the front line.

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Just a quick google, comes up with this wiki page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...e_line_of_duty

Remembering that it's a wiki page so don't expect to be 100% accurate, but good enough for this forum.

Since 1900, amongst other causes:

approx 24 police have been killed by being stabbed

Approx 71 police have been killed by being shot (not including PSNI)

and approx 21 have been killed in police car pursuits.

so in 112 years 96 police have been shot or stabbed.

If you look at this site:
http://www.citizensreportuk.org/repo...-firearms.html

From 2005 the police have shot and killed 20 civillians, and of those 20 civillians 8 either had no weapon on them or had an imitation weapon.

Not such a good strike rate.

and that's only the last 7 years.
Ok,so those officers shot or stabbed had no means of effectively defending themselves.... being armed they may have stood a chance.
Many more cops who were injured in the line of duty could've gotten away unharmed if they had the right tools to do the job.

Also,being shot having an imitation firearm is one of the possible consequences of carrying an imitation firearm.That doesn't go against the police.
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