Originally Posted by
pritch
The police where he was stationed would have received tactically sound firearms instruction. The rest of the counry, not so much.
This is something I've heard from multiple different sources.
From People I've met face-to-face, all the way to Jenny May on TVNZ.
If I'm to be charitable - It seems the Police are still operating under a paradigm of the 1950s where most potential Candidates for the Police would have a functional knowledge of Firearms and Firearm safety, and so the number of training days and training rounds (which is absolutely shockingly low) is in theory designed to be in conjunction with their personal experience and training with Firearms.
However, recent Firearm law changes have kyboshed any personal training that any member of the Police was able to do.
I'm very much of the opinion that if Officers are going to be routinely armed (and that includes carrying a Glock and an AR in their Patrol car), then they need to be training at least once a month and with a number of rounds comparable to a sport shooter. Shooting is a perishable skill.
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