Arming U.K. Police Cars Favoured
(N.Z P. A .-Reuter—Copy rig ht)
LONDON, Nov. 7.
British police cars should be armed, with the responsibility for the use of arms resting with the senior officer in the car, according to a survey by the British Safety Council.
Agitation for British police to be armed increased recently after the murder of three London policemen in August, who were shot while in a patrol car. The Safety Council issued 1000 questionaires and received 635 replies.
Policemen who answered the questionnaire said they did not feel that any useful purpose would be served by arming individual policemen. They also said traffic duties should be done by a specially-
recruited traffic police corps. Scotland Yard criticised the survey, because the Police Commissioner had not been informed, and asked members to send their forms to headquarters. “We wanted to see why the police were under strength, apparently unable to enforce the law and reduce accidents,” Mr James Tye, controller of the British Safety Council, said today. The council is a registered charity, formed in 1957.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31211, 8 November 1966, Page 17
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