Submitted on Tuesday 9th December 2014
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Arm all West Midlands Police Officers with a Personal Safety Bazooka.
On the evening of 08/12/14, West Midlands police officers were ordered to return to base due to an urgent security situation. This is unprecedented in mordern times and undermines the publics trust in the police force. Perhaps the only saving grace is that the 'pure baltic' weather conditions prevented anyone from bothering to riot.
We, the undersigned, believe that to prevent a similar situation occurring in the future, the police officers of the West Midlands should be armed. However, it is only right that officers are given superiority in any impending conflict with vagrants, criminals, uncouths, terrorists and escaped animals. Whilst a pistol may provide parity, only a 'personal safety bazooka' can guarantee superiority.
To arm the 7442 officers of the West Midlands (I looked on Wikipedia), with the FGM-148 Javelin bazooka, at a unit cost of £157K, it would only cost £1.170Bn.
We urge the government to give our crime-fighters the ultimate personal safety tool.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This is a police operational matter.
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