Talk:Gravediggers/@comment-27028159-20151005183809/@comment-28266772-20161028133323

The number of police carrying firearms in the UK increased massively after the Parisian terror attacks but generally, no, UK police are not armed. Instead special units of armed and trained officers will respond to special circumstances. The basic principal underlying UK policing is called 'policing by consent' and can be found in detail here.

Despite the apparent 'softness' of the approach it works. In the UK only seven shots were fired by police in the entire of 2015 and the last police officer to be shot in the UK was a dual shooting incident in 2012, ''four years ago. ''Police are more likely to die because of a car crash than being shot while on active duty.