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Firearms training on the increase

01 May 2003

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The number of firearms training days given to Metropolitan police officers at the new purpose-built training centre in Gravesend, Kent, has soared by 40% since the Saudi terrorist attacks in the USA on 11 September. The centre was designed for 32,500 officer training days a year, but the figure has already reached 50,000 this year.

Police Review 4.7.03.

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