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New Zealand’s police don’t carry guns. But after a white supremacist armed with semiautomatic weapons killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in the city of Christchurch in March 2019 the worst mass shooting in the country’s history some New Zealanders thought they should (Source: Cathrin Schaer, WPR)
“The operating environment has changed,” the former New Zealand police commissioner, Mike Bush, said in a statement several months after the massacre. “Police must ensure our people are equipped and enabled to perform their roles safely and to ensure our communities are, and feel, safe.”
In October that year, the national police announced a project that would see units of armed officers, so-called Armed Response Teams, undertake regular neighborhood patrols, ready to respond to emergencies and high-risk events. Previously, New Zealand’s frontline officers were unarmed, with armed contingents only on call to respond
Residents react as town revealed as area with most crimes in North Nottinghamshire
Almost 7,000 incidents were reported to Nottinghamshire Police in Sutton-in-Ashfield between November 2019 and October 2020
Lee Mills, 44, works at Timpson on Low Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield.
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