Arming police ‘undesirable’
PA Auckland Arming the police would jeopardise their safety. Chief Superintendent E. G. Perry told delegates to the International Mensa Congress at Auckland. In an unarmed society there must be an unarmed police; Arming the police would alienate the public and
would not provide them (the police) with further safeguards. It would be contrary to the interests of frontline staff to arm them. Mr Perry said that when the police were required to act most of the time without guns, they were forced to rely on personal attributes such as tact and persuasion. “It is more desirable to rely on those skills than marksmanship," he said. The difficult task for police administrators was to find a balance in looking after frontline men.
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Press, 19 February 1983, Page 11
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