Stop the Scottish police routinely carrying firearms

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Stop the Scottish police routinely carrying firearms

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The policy of Scottish firearms officers now carrying their weapons on routine patrols is unnecessary and fuels a climate of fear.

We’re calling on you to revert this policy. For safety, firearms should be locked away and only taken out by a firearms officer when it is deemed necessary and authorised by a senior officer.

Why is this important?

If police carry arms routinely, this will fuel fear and criminals might arm themselves more heavily.

Despite this, a number of police officers (around 300) are now routinely carrying sidearms while on patrol in much of Scotland. Armed police officers have been seen in a bakery, in a branch of Aldi and at a routine traffic incident in Glasgow - all incidents where it was unnecessary for the officer to have a firearm by his side.

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