A Question re British police

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Doyle worked for the Met,Scotland Yard and CID - if I recall correctly (sometimes I get canon and fanon all mixed together!) - and he was an expert marksman. Would he have been allowed to carry a gun in any of his police roles? In the Drug squad? Undercover? My story has a apart that kind of depends on him being with some group of police that would be allowed to carry. Help?

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[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, during Doyle's pre-CI5 time, outside of a couple of extremely elite squads the officers had to be authorised personally to carry ("authorised shots") through training & recognition, secondly the deployment in particular circumstances had to be authorised by the higher ups. Certain squads such as the dog squad seemed to have a higher number of, or expectation of, members being firearms authorised than others.