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The disclosure comes at a time when the police service's firearms strength has come under close scrutiny
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Perhaps the time has come for the majority of officers to have sidearms, certainly in urban areas.
I have just come back from the Canary Islands and all the officers you see over there have a sidearm, and no one even blinks at it, but if there were trouble, they could defend themselves, and anyone else.
All the offices injured or killed in London recently were unarmed, so unable to defend themselves or the public.
(Personally, I think our gun laws are far too restrictive anyway, if we ever had to defend ourselves against invaders we would have no chance, since most people would have no idea how to use weapons, nor any to use).