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Over the past few years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of incidents involving armed police officers in the United Kingdom (U.K.). This trend has been a cause of concern to police and to public alike. Whenever such incidents occur, they have invariably attracted a great deal of media attention, which sometimes portrays the police action in an unfavorable light.
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Manolias, M.B., Hyatt-Williams, A. (1993). Effects of Postshooting Experiences on Police-Authorized Firearms Officers in the United Kingdom. In: Wilson, J.P., Raphael, B. (eds) International Handbook of Traumatic Stress Syndromes. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2820-3_32
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