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Chief Adviser asks police forc
Chief Adviser Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed on Tuesday asked the police force to maintain utmost honesty, transparency and accountability in their actions to ensure good governance and rule of law in the country.
"The role of police forces is immense to establish good governance and rule of law in the country," he said while inaugurating the Police Week-2007 at Rajarbagh police line here.
The Chief Adviser said the present government is pledge bound to build a professional, skilled, service-oriented, transparent and accountable police force for the welfare of the people. On his ar... Read more
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Clarke 'sceptical' about armin
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, said today that he remained "sceptical" about routinely arming police officers, saying there was evidence it encouraged criminals to carry guns.
He promised, however, that the government would learn any necessary lessons over the fatal shooting of PC Sharon Beshenivsky by robbers in Bradford on Friday. Six people are being questioned over the killing.
Mr Clarke said it was his duty to ensure police officers had the "the right equipment and armour".
The lightweight armour worn by PC Beshenivsky was penetrated by a bullet; many officers find the heavier armoured vests too bulky for daily use.
Yesterday, the Home Office rejected calls for arming all officers following the shooting. Currently just under 7,000 officers in England and Wales carry firearms - about 10% of the Metropolitan police in London and 5% elsewhere.
Today, Mr Clarke, writing in the Sun newspaper, said: "All the experience from other countries where the police carry firearms demonstrates that this only encourages the criminals to arm themselves and potentially to turn law enforcers' own weapons on to the police themselves."
Meanwhile today, Tony Blair's official spokesman said the prime minister was still opposed to the death penalty following a call yesterday by former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens for it to be reinstated for police killers.
Lord Stevens said in his News of the World column that the "cold-blooded" murder of PC Beshenivsky had "finally" changed his mind on the death penalty.
But Mr Blair's spokesman said the government's view was unchanged. The Conservative home affairs spokesman, David Davis, who has backed the death penalty in the past, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that now was not the "right atmosphere" for that debate.
Today in Bradford, the father and stepmother of PC Beshenivsky visited Morley Street where his 38-year-old daughter, a mother of three and step-mother of two, was killed. Billy Jagger and Joyce Wadsworth placed flowers among other tributes that have been left at the site.
Police said today that a sixth suspect - a man - who was arrested at the weekend in London had been taken to West Yorkshire for questioning. Yesterday, four male suspects and a female suspect were transferred from London to Yorkshire in a heavily guarded armed convoy, supported by a helicopter, for the 200-mile journey.
Those detained were being interviewed at different police stations about the murder and the shooting of PC Beshenivsky's colleague, PC Teresa Milburn.
PC Milburn, 37, who suffered gunshot injuries to her shoulder, was released yesterday afternoon from hospital, and paid tribute last night to her "dear friend".
She said: "Friday should have been another routine day at work. Instead I lost a colleague and a dear friend. Sharon and I enjoyed working together immensely. Nothing can bring Sharon back and my wholehearted sympathy goes out to her family. The messages of support from people across West Yorkshire and beyond is heartwarming."
PC Beshenivsky's husband last night described her killers as "cowards". Paul Beshenivsky, a landscape gardener, said the armed raiders who gunned his wife down had taken away "a wonderful mum"; she was killed on her youngest daughter Lydia's fourth birthday.
West Yorkshire police said arrangements were being made to set up a trust fund.
The raid on Universal Express is reported to have involved three robbers who were armed with more than one gun and a knife. They are thought to have entered the travel agency in Morley Street and asked about buying tickets.
All three then leapt over the counter and one 27-year-old member of staff was struck across the head with a firearm. There were four members of staff and an ex-employee in the agency at the time, and some were tied up during the robbery.
The episode lasted just a few minutes before the men ran outside with an undisclosed sum of stolen cash.
The two female officers - who were both probationers with less than two years' experience - arrived in a squad car at 3.30pm, but two minutes later Bradford's police control room received a Code Zero alert, indicating a police officer had been shot.
One of the gunmen opened fire as soon as the officers confronted the gang in the street just outside the agency.
Jan Berry, the chair of the Police Federation, which represents 140,000 rank-and-file officers, said today that arming all police officers would not necessarily have prevented the killing. However, she said more officers needed to have guns.
She told BBC Breakfast that the bigger risk to officers still came from knives rather than guns. In a survey three years ago, 80% of officers said they did not want to carry guns.
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