Cameron Puts More Armed Police on Streets to Combat Terrorism
- Additional 1,000 officers will be able to use firearms
- Move announced at nuclear summit follows 2015 Paris attacks
Armed British police officers guard the Big Ben following a series of explosions in Brussels.
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The U.K. is to increase the number of its armed police by a sixth as a response to recent attacks in Europe that have seen terrorists make coordinated strikes against multiple targets.
Around 1,000 extra firearms officers will be recruited, 400 of them outside London, and they’ll be given 40 new armed response vehicles, Prime Minister David Cameron said during a visit to Washington to discuss nuclear security.