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Police in the UK face major knife threat

More than a quarter of British police officers have been threatened with a knife or a gun while on duty, a survey released on Tuesday said, but the vast majority still do not want to be routinely armed.

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Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

LONDON: More than a quarter of British police officers have been threatened with a knife or a gun while on duty, a survey released on Tuesday said, but the vast majority still do not want to be routinely armed.

Research by the Police Federation, which represents frontline officers, found that 28 per cent had been challenged by someone armed with a knife in the last two years. Another six percent had been faced with an offender armed with a gun.

While most (77 percent) do not want officers on patrol — ‘bobbies on the beat’ — to carry guns, there was strong support for the creation of more specialist armed response teams, and 89 percent wanted to see greater use of Taser stun guns.

The survey, based on responses from 47,000 of the federation’s 141,000 members, found more than 40 percent — the equivalent of 56,000 officers nationally — reported being assaulted while arresting suspects in the last two years.

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