Two police officers killed in Tameside attack as Dale Cregan arrested

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Bingo, there's units like SO19 and the like to deal with potential firearms incidents, but if you start putting guns into the hands of the average Bobby, and then skimp on the training (which we would because of budget cuts) then you run the risk of having things like the shoot-out at the Empire State building happen.

The bigger problem, IMHO, if I'm honest, is knife crime. That's where the real figures lie and it's much harder to deal with than gun crime.

Your not a million miles off the mark there...as a firearms trained officer I never drew a bead on anyone but as far as knife defence went I thought I was even more proficient but have two scars to contest my belief