Scotland Yard will face “difficult decisions” over armed policing to protect Londoners because of a continuing shortfall in the number of firearms officers willing to continue carrying weapons, Sir Mark Rowley warned on Tuesday.
The Met Commissioner said that there were still “significantly less” armed officers available for deployment in the capital after a decision by some to withdraw from firearms duties in response to the decision by prosecutors to charge one of their colleagues with the murder of Chris Kaba.
