Tooled up: London police want more firearms & Tasers, poll shows

‘Around half of London’s Metropolitan Police officers want to see more armed cops on the streets, while 75 percent of them want all officers to carry Tasers, according to a police union survey.
The Metropolitan Police Federation (MPF) found that 43 percent of officers wanted more weapons-trained cops on the streets while 75 percent want Tasers to be issued to all officers.
MPF chairman Ken Marsh told the Guardian: “We’re in a far more dangerous society than we have ever been and so we have to have the correct equipment to deal with that.
“If you take the lorry in Nice for example, that drove into crowds of people, my cops are not armed and they would not have been able to respond like the French police did, and instead would have had to make a call.”’
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