I don’t think all officers should be armed. But I don’t trust some politicians with a pen and yet we let them run this country

Wasn't Sarah Everard's killer a "trusted professional police officer"?

Shabnam Chaudri wants to thank herself she isn’t in the country of her origin for policing

That’s not a good idea, a better idea would be stiffer sentencing. If you get 10 years, you do 10 years.

A police officer has tasered a blind man because he thought his stick was a samurai sword

How did this woman ever manage to achieve high rank in the Met ? I spent 30 years in the job and so glad that I never had her as a partner !

No way.. Like the lady said.. Can't trust them with a pen.

Make sure you miss all the wrong ‘uns like those rapists and murderers put into jail over the last few years then OK? This is an idiotic idea put forward by fools.

Why DONT they already have Tasers??? ATLEAST.

How can you arm the same police force whose vetting and disciplinary system isn’t even up to standard yet. Wasn’t it last year 1000 officers alone just in Met either suspended, under investigation, restricted duties. Thats not including the rest of the country.

Not allowed to defend yourself, and the people whose responsibility it is to defend you as a result aren't allowed the tools to defend you. You can definitely tell who's lived a privileged life.

The fact that the officer at the scene failed to use her taser properly and effectively shows serious shortcomings in training - I suspect she panicked. Shabnam speaks sense.

It’s ironic that a former police boss who last worked response years and years ago before sitting in an ivory tower should be the one to be trusted on her opinion. I’m sure if faced with a violent knife man she would not want a sidearm… tasers don’t always work and other than that your in hand to hand combat. I feel sorry for bobbies.

Reading through the comments here I think we should have a register whereby those who hate the police details are recorded. Those on the register are not to be attended to by any one of UK police forces.

Imagine the likes of Wayne Cousins having a taser as standard issue, or, god forbid, a sidearm!!!! Innocent people would be getting ventilated for even looking at a cop the wrong way, in their oppinion.

Megalomaniacs in costumes given weapons, what could possibly go wrong.

A friend used to own a gun club, pre Dunblane and had several firearms officers who were members. One of them came in to do a bit of practice with his personal weapon prior to "requalifying" the next day, the range officer had to order him off the range as he managed to hit the target in the next lane then topped it off by putting a round into the shooting bench. Admittedly, this was in the mid-90's but I have no doubt some officers have a similar level of capability.

Anyone remember how the police followed an innocent person onto a train and shot him because he looked like a terrorist. Terrible idea.

If officers are to issued with tasers. They must be fully trained and mentally assessed first.

Someone is confusing police officers with John Wick :))

sorry but it completely bewilders me that we have officers on the streets without even tasers in this day and age where crime is so high, honestly mental just adding more threat and danger to the job

If every officer is to be routinely armed for defence then it is only fair that the people have the right to do the same. The authorities having that right only is too much of an imbalance of power. We have far too many as is, we don’t need another, especially one such as this.

There are the ‘normal’ proportion of thugs, bullies and corrupt people, some with very dodgy temperament, in the police forces. Only specially selected officers should carry arms and then not necessarily as a routine. This lady is loaded with common sense and good judgment.

Loving that you are questioning a Detective on what patrolling officers should or shouldn’t have or use when dealing with dangerous people. True leadership skills on display here…

Lord no , you would have people being shot for wrong think, especially with some of these snowflakes we currently have in the state police. Arming every officer would be dangerous to the public there are too many devients in the current state police force and think of the friendly fire risk with some of these officers.

Remember the non threatening dog who got tased. If this is how they deal with non threatening situations, wouldn't like to see them with a threatening situation. Even if they are armed by the time they turn up to the scene everyone has gone anyways.🤣

Why not? In most of the other countries in Europe every police officer is armed to the teeth. It's time to finally give the police the tools they need if we are to trust them again to protect us at any point in the future.

When you look at how unprofessional our current police force is, and how unfit they are, i dont think giving them firearms is a good idea, they will get those weapons stolen or taken off them during arrests, this happens alot with tasers and other equipment. Plus if every police officer needs a firearm to protect themselves then every legal, UK citizen with no criminal record should also be able to protect themselves. It would end up turning into the issues America currently has. Police need to be fitter, with the correct combat training on how to disarm hostiles and the correct equipment. Our police force is extremely far behind many other countries around the world when it comes to training, less LGBT training and worrying about pronouns is a good start.

They cannot protect themselves let alone the public...while monsters run amok..

250,000 citizens in the Czech Republic have passed training to conceal carry firearms as a matter personal, public and national safety, honour and integrity. Why is the UK so oppressive to its own people's safety? Prohibiting inanimate objects is not logical. Prohibiting members of the public training to professional standards is not logical.

UK people should have never handed their guns in because this never happened when the UK had guns.

I look at it this way,I have seen people killed and injured while in the view of unarmed cops.

Let this women who is interviewed at the start to put herself in the police officers shoes. If she applied to be an officer she would quickly change her mind.

We don’t want our police officers in the U.K armed with a gun, but they could all be trained to use and carry a taser!

I suggest you look as northern ireland as the example. ALL officers are routinely armed. There arent too many people shot by police officers. Check the stats....

Nowhere near the level of harm that some manage to do with religious books.

A ninety three year old one legged pensioner in a care home in a wheelchair with dementia, was tasered pepper sprayed hit with a batton dragged from his wheelchair and arrested taken into custody then to hospital and died a few weeks later. They were in Westminster court last week.

If you think the police are not doing their jobs properly the only way to change that is to join the police and do your job correctly to bring the standard up.

you are missing the point with the Police. the new qualifier for recruitment is ---- Not police skills ---- potential ruthlesness and on the proper side of the current political rhetoric. I am sure you can figure how useful they are to a totalitarian regime like the one that is developing in the UK.

The sword welding madman was disarmed quite nicely with a taser.

Guarantee she spent 3 minutes working response before going to a plain clothes, desk based role.

You’re not meant to trust them, you’re meant to do as you’re told.

We need proper psychological screening for police recruits/ applicants before they are even offered initial training or induction, It needs to be , Apply, be well Educated to a standard considerably higher than a pound shop door guard! A thorough interview with more than one Person, THEN a full psychological evaluation to ensure theyre not carrying hidden baggage or were bullied in school( that won't leave many) . Only after fulfilling all criterias should they be approved for training, REMEMBER In this country We are Policed By Consent! not By Order

Do not arm them . Those very arms will be used against you .

19000 Officers joined in the last few years and they had no face to face training at all... You gotta be kidding me loool

Maybe all the keyboard warriors in the comments should put themselves in a police officer’s position when faced with real violence.

As someone from Northern Ireland, I find it mad that all police in the UK don't carry guns, let alone tasers. I can't recall the last incident of an unlawful shooting in NI. Perform the right background checks, train them properly, and afford them the proper tools to protect themselves and the public.

If cops can't effectively protect themselves how can they protect the public.

Who trust what politicians say? lol 😂

I would like to hear from the officer who almost lost her arm about how that happened, and what she would do differently now.

Oh and an automatic, right to a lawyer, regardless of the ability to pay.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary announced “tasers for all Hampshire police officers with operational need” in 2018. This brought the number up to 620; the number increased since 2018. Operational needs could be expanded to include far more officers. Firearms officer quotas are orchestrated by the Home Office.

With the incompetence I have personally witnessed , I'm surprised any of them know how to use one !

For years we were the only police force that wore a 2 piece suit to work

The police service is more corrupt now than it was back in the 70s and 80s makes life on Mars look like nothing 😂

Officers react to incidents against the defenseless public, better off allowing the public the means to defend themselves

Ironically, but true......More police, more courts, more justice.

Being a Policeman is one of the safest job's in the country, it is quite rare for serious injuries occur. One of the difficulties is lots of Police women and minorities are so afraid it would be dangerous for them to be armed. 20% of the Police in the country are armed with a Taser, do we really need more?

The sentence for carrying a weapon in a public space should be 7 years. Wether it is. Knife sword or. A gun

Watch the take down video of the sword weilder. It took THREE taser strikes to disable him and even then he didn't seem totally enabled. The tasers seem to be flawed and at times ineffective.

Every frontline police officer should be trained and issued with Tasers. No ifs no buts, not just for their own protection but the added protection of the public who require the very best protection that can be arranged. Please no more vilifying the police because of what Cousins did. I don't remember the medical profession being collectively vilified after Shipman.

Typical from a person that has never dealt with angry person ..........they won't offer every operational officer a Taser, its cost. Remember the villager cop in France carries a side arm.

In the US the cops are often charged for torturing the detainees with tases.

Never really trusted Cliff Richard ! 😂

Even the majority of cops don’t want all officers to carry a gun.

I would have resigned if I was ordered to carry a firearm, especially given the level of post incident scrutiny today. A wise man would not put himself or his family through such an unfair scrutiny system.

I believe if every officer was armed they would simply be disarmed by criminals and the firearms stocked or sold.

She’s right. Until a proper system is in place to vet officers now and in the future, the thought of arming certain officers with tasers is worrying. However everyone has the right to to defend themselves, and if the Thin Blue Line are expected to police the types of crimes prevalent in the UK, some type of non lethal weapon , be it a taser or some other type of device, needs to be available to properly certified officers.

Well that’s how intelligent the corrupt controlled Government is . 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Haven't watched video yet but that title had me rolling 😂 couldn't agree more!!

When you put all your faith in the weapon you're carrying, you've already given in to fear.

If you’re not gonna train every officer with a taser firearm, you have to employ more police more armed police on the streets

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Officers dont join for the right reasons anymore, they join for their own benefit and not for the general good. They just dont hold any respect now and respect is a two way thing.

A pen is to much for most plod.

As an Englishman I know the police are more likely to persecute me than non- English

If the government did what they are paid to do ( by us that is, not the elite ) then there would be no need to arm the police.

We should have a 2nd amendment like the us and have policed armed. But i do not want armed police without armed citizens

But you would soon expect an officer to put there lives at risk armed with nothing but a baton and some mace spray

I don't think those people should be a police officer in the first place.

Especially that strange woman officer who was running about pepper spraying everyone! Lunatic

So they can have a gun to protect themselves but we can’t have anything?

I would sooner Argue for the Voters to have the right to bare arms than i would the police ....I would argue the country would be safer if public had right to bare arms ... Than it is to give authoritarian police force who has activity showing they corrupt and very much show politicization by painting certain flags on cars etc etc

If police are allowed tasers for protection so should the public not 5 years in jail for “fire arm” offences

We need army police, police without gun is security officer

Frankly, it's a ridiculous considerstion. Just look at the issues with rogue officers especially at the Met and realise that they will resort to the easiest approach. And in a few years the clamour will be for guns, just because ...

You saw on St. George’s day non of them can be trusted or have the right temperament

We are heading for a lawless society who would be a police officer now let alone carry a fire arm

You can’t trust them with pepper spray look how they get pepper spray happy on people when they aren’t even resisting arrest.

Don’t let them use a ‘rare enough’ incident to warrant some drastic political change which is how we have already ended up halfway to this dystopian mess we already live in. Next it won’t just be armed police officers we will have school shootings and other much worse acts occurring regularly like in America. RIP that poor boy.

Cliff Richard? 🤭

Most officers couldn't pass the training requirements, and do not actually want the liability. Just like a loan shark debt collector should not carry explicitly deadly weapons, neither should all police, a loan shark can't get much out of a dead body, and neither can the state.

Transport police are armed. Customs are Armed. I believe if you arm the police force then UK citizens should also be allowed to bare Arms especiallially in these corrupt times!

if it doesn't discharge properly, or the barbs on the projectile don't make it through the assailant's clothing, whatever fed deploying it, is going to be in harms way. I wonder if that's what happened to the poor officer who has suffered life changing injuries. this feels like a watershed moment for the feds in the UK, and I know I'd feel safer if I was in a situation like this, the officers on the way had the increased capability. Anyway, RIP to that little lad, and I hope the feds involved make the best recovery they can.

And what protection for the citizen. The police and governments seem to be doing nothing to stop the escalating crime in this country now.

The government need to put it out there if you have a knife on you there will be a 5 year prison term minimum and if you use a knife above the waste then you get 15 years in prison minimum.some police are power hungry and think they can do what they want the police need to be retrained every 5 years in service just to remind them why they are police officer to protect and serve the public

There is no solution,we live in England and that’s the way it’s become.

There isn't a problem with CRIME there IS a problem with the Economy in the UK. Sort that them many crimes will suddenly drop.

They need a pen so they can look busy!

If every police officer is armed every criminal will also start to carry guns then every citizen would want to be armed for fear that a criminal will be armed and citizens will want guns as legitimate self-defence. America here we come!!!