Force of 2200 firearms officers boosted but news met with concerns that resources being concentrated in capitalThe Metropolitan police is to increase the number of its armed officers by 600,with a third on standby to reply to a mass terrorist attack.
The Met’s commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, and said the initiative was a direct response to the Paris attacks,in which 130 people were killed by gunmen and suicide bombs across the French capital.
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Source: theguardian.com