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MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: If armed officers can't do their job properly, why have them at all?
It was once a matter of national pride that our police, unlike those of Europe and North America, were unarmed and enforced law and order by persuasion and tact.
It was once a matter of national pride that our police, unlike those of Europe and North America, were unarmed and enforced law and order by persuasion and tact.
