Rejected petition Give all Police Officers in the UK access to Firearms

The U.K. Is one of only five countries where the Police are not armed, after the recent attacks so close to the uk borders it is about time that the police forces across the country are armed or have access to firearms.

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In Britain, Ireland, Norway, Iceland and New Zealand, officers are unarmed when they are on patrol. Police are only equipped with firearms in special circumstances. It's a strategy that seems to work surprisingly well for these countries. Police officers there have saved lives -- exactly because they were unable to shoot.
In Iceland, one third of all citizens are armed -- but police officers are not.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112625

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Date submitted 16 November 2015
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