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This blew me away:

"According to Home Office figures, between March 2022 and March 2023 there were 18,395 firearms operations in England and Wales - the Met Police accounted for 20% of these. In that time, there were only 10 incidents across England and Wales when an officer opened fire at a person, the figures show."

Compare that with 48 just for NYC in 2022: https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/firearm...

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The context is that guns are much harder to come by in the UK and as such the armed police in the UK are much less likely to be met by an armed individual. So you would expect there to be far fewer times where they were actually required to open fire.

Might the context not be that armed police in the UK are only used for especially significant incidents and that these may or may not be determined solely on the likelihood of possession of firearms by non-police?

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