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"THE Government will not foot the bill for training more firearms officers in England and Wales, the police minister said. Hazel Blears insisted that arming the whole service was not the answer to protecting officers and the public from the threat of criminals. She also said that if individual chief constables want to arm a greater percentage of their officers, a move the Police Federation of England and Wales has called for, they will have to do so out of their existing budgets. " [Sub Required]
