What about the rights of the policeman and his family?
What rights have been lost?
Not followed this closely, so please enlighten me.
Armed coppers are usually deployed in life or death situations, terrorism or danger to life. Most occasions they are given the order to fire, that removes their responsibility and liability, they were obeying orders, the person who gave the order accepts liability. Occasionally they have to make a decision on their own, is a victims life at risk, is their own life at risk, they don't have your luxury of mulling it over for a few days and writing a risk assessment, they have to make a judgement in less time than it takes most of us to blink.
On rare occasions, very rare occasions, they will make a mistake.
If, every time that happens, they face a murder trial, it's not worth doing the job, not worth being banged up and losing your family.
The British armed police are the best trained and most restrained in the world.
It could be that this copper was rogue, I doubt it, but we don't know the story, some fools on here think they do but they really don't, we will eventually but that's a long way off.
My personal opinion, I'd rather have them than not have them, I feel safer with them than without them.
