Does a canine officer need to carry a gun?.... But if Hanna's gun had been real then the officer might be dead....
Maybe, but:
She had sped past an officer taking his police dog to the vet. He attempted to pull Hanna over, but she purposefully stuck his vehicle, pulled a U-turn to point the wrong way, then came to a stop.
I'm pretty sure if police officers were usually unarmed, then a situation like this would ring some warning bells and there would be a special procedure like "wait forthe SWAT team to get there."
How would a situation like this have been handled in the UK?
'Course in other countries armed civilians might be rare enough that there'd be less concern.
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