‘I wouldn’t trust some police officers with a pen, let alone a Taser’ | Shabnam Chaudhri 

I don’t think all officers should be armed. But I don’t trust some politicians with a pen and yet we let them run this country

Wasn't Sarah Everard's killer a "trusted professional police officer"?

Shabnam Chaudri wants to thank herself she isn’t in the country of her origin for policing

That’s not a good idea, a better idea would be stiffer sentencing. If you get 10 years, you do 10 years.

A police officer has tasered a blind man because he thought his stick was a samurai sword

No way.. Like the lady said.. Can't trust them with a pen.

How did this woman ever manage to achieve high rank in the Met ? I spent 30 years in the job and so glad that I never had her as a partner !

Megalomaniacs in costumes given weapons, what could possibly go wrong.

The fact that the officer at the scene failed to use her taser properly and effectively shows serious shortcomings in training - I suspect she panicked. Shabnam speaks sense.

Anyone remember how the police followed an innocent person onto a train and shot him because he looked like a terrorist. Terrible idea.

Make sure you miss all the wrong ‘uns like those rapists and murderers put into jail over the last few years then OK? This is an idiotic idea put forward by fools.

How can you arm the same police force whose vetting and disciplinary system isn’t even up to standard yet. Wasn’t it last year 1000 officers alone just in Met either suspended, under investigation, restricted duties. Thats not including the rest of the country.

Why DONT they already have Tasers??? ATLEAST.

It’s ironic that a former police boss who last worked response years and years ago before sitting in an ivory tower should be the one to be trusted on her opinion. I’m sure if faced with a violent knife man she would not want a sidearm… tasers don’t always work and other than that your in hand to hand combat. I feel sorry for bobbies.

Not allowed to defend yourself, and the people whose responsibility it is to defend you as a result aren't allowed the tools to defend you. You can definitely tell who's lived a privileged life.

Imagine the likes of Wayne Cousins having a taser as standard issue, or, god forbid, a sidearm!!!! Innocent people would be getting ventilated for even looking at a cop the wrong way, in their oppinion.

If officers are to issued with tasers. They must be fully trained and mentally assessed first.

A friend used to own a gun club, pre Dunblane and had several firearms officers who were members. One of them came in to do a bit of practice with his personal weapon prior to "requalifying" the next day, the range officer had to order him off the range as he managed to hit the target in the next lane then topped it off by putting a round into the shooting bench. Admittedly, this was in the mid-90's but I have no doubt some officers have a similar level of capability.

Reading through the comments here I think we should have a register whereby those who hate the police details are recorded. Those on the register are not to be attended to by any one of UK police forces.

Someone is confusing police officers with John Wick :))

sorry but it completely bewilders me that we have officers on the streets without even tasers in this day and age where crime is so high, honestly mental just adding more threat and danger to the job

When you look at how unprofessional our current police force is, and how unfit they are, i dont think giving them firearms is a good idea, they will get those weapons stolen or taken off them during arrests, this happens alot with tasers and other equipment. Plus if every police officer needs a firearm to protect themselves then every legal, UK citizen with no criminal record should also be able to protect themselves. It would end up turning into the issues America currently has. Police need to be fitter, with the correct combat training on how to disarm hostiles and the correct equipment. Our police force is extremely far behind many other countries around the world when it comes to training, less LGBT training and worrying about pronouns is a good start.

Lord no , you would have people being shot for wrong think, especially with some of these snowflakes we currently have in the state police. Arming every officer would be dangerous to the public there are too many devients in the current state police force and think of the friendly fire risk with some of these officers.

250,000 citizens in the Czech Republic have passed training to conceal carry firearms as a matter personal, public and national safety, honour and integrity. Why is the UK so oppressive to its own people's safety? Prohibiting inanimate objects is not logical. Prohibiting members of the public training to professional standards is not logical.

There are the ‘normal’ proportion of thugs, bullies and corrupt people, some with very dodgy temperament, in the police forces. Only specially selected officers should carry arms and then not necessarily as a routine. This lady is loaded with common sense and good judgment.

If every officer is to be routinely armed for defence then it is only fair that the people have the right to do the same. The authorities having that right only is too much of an imbalance of power. We have far too many as is, we don’t need another, especially one such as this.

Remember the non threatening dog who got tased. If this is how they deal with non threatening situations, wouldn't like to see them with a threatening situation. Even if they are armed by the time they turn up to the scene everyone has gone anyways.🤣

They cannot protect themselves let alone the public...while monsters run amok..

UK people should have never handed their guns in because this never happened when the UK had guns.

Why not? In most of the other countries in Europe every police officer is armed to the teeth. It's time to finally give the police the tools they need if we are to trust them again to protect us at any point in the future.

I suggest you look as northern ireland as the example. ALL officers are routinely armed. There arent too many people shot by police officers. Check the stats....

We don’t want our police officers in the U.K armed with a gun, but they could all be trained to use and carry a taser!

Let this women who is interviewed at the start to put herself in the police officers shoes. If she applied to be an officer she would quickly change her mind.

If you think the police are not doing their jobs properly the only way to change that is to join the police and do your job correctly to bring the standard up.

The police service is more corrupt now than it was back in the 70s and 80s makes life on Mars look like nothing 😂

A ninety three year old one legged pensioner in a care home in a wheelchair with dementia, was tasered pepper sprayed hit with a batton dragged from his wheelchair and arrested taken into custody then to hospital and died a few weeks later. They were in Westminster court last week.

Loving that you are questioning a Detective on what patrolling officers should or shouldn’t have or use when dealing with dangerous people. True leadership skills on display here…

The sword welding madman was disarmed quite nicely with a taser.

19000 Officers joined in the last few years and they had no face to face training at all... You gotta be kidding me loool

you are missing the point with the Police. the new qualifier for recruitment is ---- Not police skills ---- potential ruthlesness and on the proper side of the current political rhetoric. I am sure you can figure how useful they are to a totalitarian regime like the one that is developing in the UK.

Who trust what politicians say? lol 😂

I look at it this way,I have seen people killed and injured while in the view of unarmed cops.

Maybe all the keyboard warriors in the comments should put themselves in a police officer’s position when faced with real violence.

As someone from Northern Ireland, I find it mad that all police in the UK don't carry guns, let alone tasers. I can't recall the last incident of an unlawful shooting in NI. Perform the right background checks, train them properly, and afford them the proper tools to protect themselves and the public.

We need proper psychological screening for police recruits/ applicants before they are even offered initial training or induction, It needs to be , Apply, be well Educated to a standard considerably higher than a pound shop door guard! A thorough interview with more than one Person, THEN a full psychological evaluation to ensure theyre not carrying hidden baggage or were bullied in school( that won't leave many) . Only after fulfilling all criterias should they be approved for training, REMEMBER In this country We are Policed By Consent! not By Order

Guarantee she spent 3 minutes working response before going to a plain clothes, desk based role.

Do not arm them . Those very arms will be used against you .

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary announced “tasers for all Hampshire police officers with operational need” in 2018. This brought the number up to 620; the number increased since 2018. Operational needs could be expanded to include far more officers. Firearms officer quotas are orchestrated by the Home Office.

Officers react to incidents against the defenseless public, better off allowing the public the means to defend themselves

Being a Policeman is one of the safest job's in the country, it is quite rare for serious injuries occur. One of the difficulties is lots of Police women and minorities are so afraid it would be dangerous for them to be armed. 20% of the Police in the country are armed with a Taser, do we really need more?

For years we were the only police force that wore a 2 piece suit to work

Every frontline police officer should be trained and issued with Tasers. No ifs no buts, not just for their own protection but the added protection of the public who require the very best protection that can be arranged. Please no more vilifying the police because of what Cousins did. I don't remember the medical profession being collectively vilified after Shipman.

If cops can't effectively protect themselves how can they protect the public.

Typical from a person that has never dealt with angry person ..........they won't offer every operational officer a Taser, its cost. Remember the villager cop in France carries a side arm.

Well that’s how intelligent the corrupt controlled Government is . 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Never really trusted Cliff Richard ! 😂

The sentence for carrying a weapon in a public space should be 7 years. Wether it is. Knife sword or. A gun

We should have a 2nd amendment like the us and have policed armed. But i do not want armed police without armed citizens

Oh and an automatic, right to a lawyer, regardless of the ability to pay.

I would have resigned if I was ordered to carry a firearm, especially given the level of post incident scrutiny today. A wise man would not put himself or his family through such an unfair scrutiny system.

She’s right. Until a proper system is in place to vet officers now and in the future, the thought of arming certain officers with tasers is worrying. However everyone has the right to to defend themselves, and if the Thin Blue Line are expected to police the types of crimes prevalent in the UK, some type of non lethal weapon , be it a taser or some other type of device, needs to be available to properly certified officers.

We need army police, police without gun is security officer

Haven't watched video yet but that title had me rolling 😂 couldn't agree more!!

WHAT....WESTMIDLAND,S POLICE CANNOT READ A MAP.

In the US the cops are often charged for torturing the detainees with tases.

With the incompetence I have personally witnessed , I'm surprised any of them know how to use one !

If police are allowed tasers for protection so should the public not 5 years in jail for “fire arm” offences

I would like to hear from the officer who almost lost her arm about how that happened, and what she would do differently now.

Maybe be careful who you let in the country?

FORMER Detective Supt. Shabnam Chaudhri...................yep says it all.

Didn’t taser offer the met free tasers but the met turned it down.

Don’t let them use a ‘rare enough’ incident to warrant some drastic political change which is how we have already ended up halfway to this dystopian mess we already live in. Next it won’t just be armed police officers we will have school shootings and other much worse acts occurring regularly like in America. RIP that poor boy.

before you do just make sure you increased average IQ of police department :)

I believe if every officer was armed they would simply be disarmed by criminals and the firearms stocked or sold.

Watch the take down video of the sword weilder. It took THREE taser strikes to disable him and even then he didn't seem totally enabled. The tasers seem to be flawed and at times ineffective.

Nowhere near the level of harm that some manage to do with religious books.

So they can have a gun to protect themselves but we can’t have anything?

As an Englishman I know the police are more likely to persecute me than non- English

How police want to protect a public if they can’t even protect themselves , law in uk doesn’t make any sense

Transport police are armed. Customs are Armed. I believe if you arm the police force then UK citizens should also be allowed to bare Arms especiallially in these corrupt times!

If you’re not gonna train every officer with a taser firearm, you have to employ more police more armed police on the streets

I bet she doesnt even know any policemen or women.

Especially that strange woman officer who was running about pepper spraying everyone! Lunatic

If the government did what they are paid to do ( by us that is, not the elite ) then there would be no need to arm the police.

I would sooner Argue for the Voters to have the right to bare arms than i would the police ....I would argue the country would be safer if public had right to bare arms ... Than it is to give authoritarian police force who has activity showing they corrupt and very much show politicization by painting certain flags on cars etc etc

If you knew how many French officers use the gun on themselves at home under depression?...

Officers should be asked if they want to be armed. And only after they pass the training would they carry a pistol on the hip. That would mean that the law would have to be changed so cops aren't guilty until proved innocent. People like this who are former officers saying they would trust officers with a pen is disgusting!!!!!!

i wouldnt trust chaudri to inspect a blocked toilet let alone be a police inspector

Even the majority of cops don’t want all officers to carry a gun.

You can’t trust them with pepper spray look how they get pepper spray happy on people when they aren’t even resisting arrest.

But you would soon expect an officer to put there lives at risk armed with nothing but a baton and some mace spray

Officers dont join for the right reasons anymore, they join for their own benefit and not for the general good. They just dont hold any respect now and respect is a two way thing.

Frankly, it's a ridiculous considerstion. Just look at the issues with rogue officers especially at the Met and realise that they will resort to the easiest approach. And in a few years the clamour will be for guns, just because ...

There isn't a problem with CRIME there IS a problem with the Economy in the UK. Sort that them many crimes will suddenly drop.

There is no solution,we live in England and that’s the way it’s become.

We are heading for a lawless society who would be a police officer now let alone carry a fire arm

Have higher standards for recruitment n more training

Cliff Richard 😂

I don't think those people should be a police officer in the first place.

If every police officer is armed every criminal will also start to carry guns then every citizen would want to be armed for fear that a criminal will be armed and citizens will want guns as legitimate self-defence. America here we come!!!