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To: steve harris who wrote (261867)	11/23/2005 1:57:49 PM
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Female Cop Murdered; British Police Want Guns By Jim Kouri CPP (11/22/05) The two female officers, both unarmed and with little more than 20 months of law enforcement experience, were subjected to gunfire by suspects during a travel agency robbery. The officers were responding to an alarm from the agency. excerpt 2: This latest cop killing - the first British female officer to be killed in the line of duty in four years - renewed calls for police to be better protected including allowing them to carry sidearms. This is a controversial issue in Britain, especially in London. This latest cop-killing highlights the rampant use of firearms by criminals in spite of some of the world's toughest gun control laws. Britain always prided itself in not needing armed law enforcement officers to patrol the streets and maintain the peace. excerpt 3: The powers that control the police departments are still not budging from their position of not arming cops. A Home Office spokesperson told members of the news media that the policy in Britain has long been that the police should not generally be armed and that gives a character to their policing that they shouldn't give up. On the otherside of the debate is a police activist, Norman Brennan, who is demanding a ballot vote of all British law enforcement officers on whether they wanted to be armed no matter what their function. As it stands, only special units of police are permitted to carry firearms. In a statement by Brennan, who's director of Protecting the Protectors, a police officers advocacy group, he says, "The time has come for an informed debate and a ballot of officers from every force on the full-time arming of the British police service. "The adage that if you arm the police more criminals will carry guns is nonsense. The police service are being outgunned on the streets of Britain day and night. The romantic image of the unarmed 'bobby on the beat' has to be consigned to the history books. "If police officers are to retain the highest confidence of the public and their own morale, surely the time has come for them to be able to defend themselves and the British public with every means possible. If that includes the routine carrying of firearms, then so be it." excerpt 4: Surprisingly, the Police Federation, the union representing rank-and-file cops in Britain, is opposed to arming its membership. One officer believes it's more of a political position and that a ballot vote of cops would show most officers want firearms. AMERICANDAILY: americandaily.com