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British policing and use of force
Sgt Laura HeslopSgt Richard Heslop West Yorkshire Police UK
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Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, unarmed female police officers killed in Manchester England (17
Sept 2012)
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Scope
• Comparative policing
• Questions about use of force in UK and U.S.A
• Questions about gun laws (and attitudes to firearms) in both countries
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Comparative (international) policing
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In contrast to policing in North America and across most of Europe, the vast majority of police officers in Britain do not carry lethal firearms. Indeed, for a heavily urbanised country of its population size the situation in Great Britain is probably unique.
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United Kingdom of Great Britain England and Wales and Northern Ireland (43 police forces)
Single police force NI and Scotland
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Structure of UK Policing
• Single police force in both Northern Ireland and Scotland
• 43 Territorial police forces in England and Wales
• Small number of specialist and national policing agencies
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Britain:facts and figures
• 134,100 officers in England and Wales
• Approx 5% carry firearms
• Three incidents in which police discharged conventional firearm in 2010-11.
• 2004 poll found 48% of public against arming the police.
• 2006 Survey found 82% of rank and file officers did not want to be armed.
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Britain Continued
• 648 homicides in 2008.
• 39 involving firearms.
• Homicides per capita are 48 times fewer than in the USA
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Britain: continued
• Trend is downwards.
• In 2010-11 388 firearms offences in England and Wales - 3% lower than previous 12 months.
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Britain: firearms and public
• Stringent Firearms laws. No right to bear arms.
• Tight control of handguns in particular
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Gun ownership and violence in U.S.A
• In 2004 36.5% of Americans reported having a gun in their home
• Majority of gun-related deaths suicides: (17,352 in 2007)
• In 2009 of the 15,241 homicides in US
9,146 deaths were by firearms
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