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Kugai:
The Police here, apart from special circumstances and the specialist AOS and ATS, are usually unarmed.  I think we have one of the few regularly unarmed Police Forces in the world.  There is debate on this, with even some officers on one side of the debate or the other.  I do know that there are certain Patrol Vehicles that carry handguns in secure boxes in them ready to be deployed should the situation require it, and nearly all our Patrol Cars carry lockboxed Tasers and carry Pepper Spray should the officers need them.

Grognard:
I would actually prefer that.
I always thought the Police are supposed to be Peace Keepers or Peace Officers.
I dislike the heavily armed thug in blue that the current mindset endorses.

Method of Madness:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 07 Nov 2013, 11:54 ---It just seemed really weird not to at least say "Look at the kitty! It's called a lynx!".

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Ahhh, yeah, that'd have been better.

Metope:
Police are unarmed in Norway too.

Funny story about police in different countries: I'm a Norwegian who live in Glasgow, and I was dating this American who also lived in Glasgow at the time. We were walking home late one day and these women, all drunk off their asses came walking towards us, they could barely stand and walking seemed like the biggest challenge in the world. Two police officers walked past them and didn't even look twice at them, and both me and the guy were like 'why didn't they approach those women?'. Turned out I was weirded out about the police not helping them, and my ex was weirded out about them not reprimanding the women for improper behaviour or something like that.

Is it cold in here?:

--- Quote from: Icelandic police officer Haraldur Sigurđsson in Alda Sigmundsóttir's ebook "Living Inside the Meltdown" ---The traditional Icelandic term for police officer is lögre- gluţjónn, which literally means “law and order servant.” Many members of the Icelandic police still approach their work in that way. The police officer is there to serve the pub- lic. To serve and protect. The role of servant is a noble role. And it is good when the police is able to approach its work in that way. I prefer not to use the term lögreglumađur [“po- liceman”], although it is much more common today. There are attempts everywhere to water down the “servant’”term. I think this is unwise. I want to bring back the term lögre- gluţjónn.
On my desk I keep a pair of white gloves like the Icelan- dic police used to wear. I keep them there as a reminder. A police officer who approaches a scene wearing white gloves sends out a message that he is not about to engage in vio- lence. To me, those white gloves perfectly symbolise what a police officer should be.

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