Does routine arming of the police make the officers and the public safer?

dc.contributor.author	Sarre, R.
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	Firearms carriage policy in Australian policing has changed considerably in the last four decades. The move from the deployment of the baton to the covered pistol, and then to the widespread carriage of the exposed revolver, occurred more by a process of incremental accretion than as a result of a careful series of decisions following public debate. In 1970 only the New South Wales Police Force was habitually armed. Over time, policies were introduced in each Australian jurisdiction that allowed police officers to gauge their own level of vulnerability and to request a firearm in circumstances which they perceived as dangerous. The consequence of those policies is that firearms are now carried by most patrol officers and detectives in all Australian states and territories all of the time.
dc.identifier.citation	Policing Insight, 2019; 1-6
dc.identifier.issn	2634-7822
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/141397
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Policing Insight
dc.rights	Copyright 2019 Policing Insight Access Condition Notes: Accepted manuscript available on open access
dc.subject	police
dc.subject	firearms
dc.title	Does routine arming of the police make the officers and the public safer?
dc.type	Journal article
pubs.publication-status	Published
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