Police in Norway fired their guns only twice last year – and no one was hurt – new statistics which reveal the country’s low level of gun use have shown.
Norwegian officers drew their weapons just 42 times in 2014, the lowest number of times in the last 12 years. Only two people were killed in police shootings in the same period.
The majority of Norway’s police, like forces in Britain, Ireland and Iceland, patrol unarmed and carry guns only under special circumstances.

In the US, where officers are armed at all times, 547 people have been killed by police during the first six months of 2015 alone, 503 of them by gunshot.

UK police have a similarly low rate of gun use to Norway. One person was fatally shot by British police in 2014.
In the first 24 days of 2015, US police shot and killed 59 people, which is more than police in England and Wales did in the last 24 years (55).
With the difference in populations taken into account, US citizens are still around 100 times more likely to be shot by police than British citizens are.
"Any attempts to roll back the militarization of the American police would need to be accompanied by policies that increase economic and racial equality and legitimate opportunity for advancement for the poor," a sociology professor at Northern Michigan University, told The Washington Post.
US police are faced with greater day-to-day violence than most developed countries. In 2013, 30 officers were fatally shot while on duty.
The last time a British officer was killed by gunshot was in 2012 when two female police constables were shot in Manchester.
Chief Constable Sir Peter Fahy said in a statement at the time, "Sadly we know from the experience in America and other countries that having armed officers certainly does not mean, sadly, that police officers do not end up getting shot."

No in my beloved Nigeria.
God bless naija.
In the meantime


kindly check my thread
https://www.nairaland.com/2483122/how-join-red-cross-society

Come see the police in my village, u go knw say water don pass garri

Stray bullets everywhere here

Wow! That's very commendable

wetin happen? dey done sack Inspector Taye.

US will come here to preach Human rights for us.

#listenin to buffalo soldier by bob marley#












#weed

Hmmmmm. ....naija!!!
For my beloved country naija, we don lose count of how many bullets police don fire.

Na how many we wan count? The rate wey bullets they go 'astray' for we country, na only deliverance go fit save the the gun and the hand wey hold the gun from letting the innocent bullets go 'astray'. All we dey hear na, stray bullet! Stray bullet!! Stay bullet!!!

We country here, if people gather for carnival and police dey there, dem fit begin use dem bullets as 'fire crackers' if the organisers or people we dey there no 'involve' them for the 'fun'

Even for dem stations, bullets wey dem no fire dey 'miss' (that one na if the gun no join for the 'missing').

Anyhow the thing be, me I like me country wella. Na my 'papa land' and me I like am...chikena!

This is Nigeria and I bliv naija police no fit rch dat feat....even in a month sef

No wonder there is relative peace and sanity in the country.


Why won't such economy thrive

I don't believe it

Norway is a typical example of how a sane society should run. A very thriving democracy with robust social programs for her citizens.

The number of police bullet spent last week in Aba in one day was more than those spent in Norway in a whole year.

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........Corking my guns....Am I fear you!!!

2 bullets!

I trust Nigeria Police.

Nigeria wey fit shoot innocent citizen on top bribe.

See Professionalism/law abiding citizens at work.

Naija , only God go save us from stray bullets and police brutality.

I still love naija o