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Police fear officers stopped from wearing guns in court are at higher risk of being "soft targets" for terrorists following the shooting death of a police employee. NSW Police Association acting president Pat Gooley said magistrates who refused to uphold new protocol allowing police to wear their appointments in court should reconsider following the fatal shooting outside the state's police headquarters on Friday.

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/unarmed-nsw-police-fear-they-are-soft-targets-for-terrorists-20151005-gk1es6.html

This is not accurate. If you look at the statistics of police deaths, and the statistics of terrorist attacks in Australia, and compare attacks on police to terrorist acts and then compute the number of police in to that, there is almost zero risk to police in Australia from terrorism.

Police, you may or may not be aware, deal with, mostly, things such as:

drink driving
domestic violence
kids smoking pot
shoplifting

They carry guns because they are at potential risk. It is to defend themselves and others.

However, this does not happen in the UK, and they face the IRA.

But in the UK, and everywhere else in the world, there are no guns in court.

Why would Australian police want guns in court? The risk is miniscule. It is disrespectful and does bad things to the mindset of the police.

They are basically there for minor crimes. A guy got drunk and punched another patron at the pub in the face. That kind of stuff.

They should not be allowed to have their mindset altered to the point where they can become at risk of suffering PTSD and become trigger happy and hyper vigilant.

Because it is not an accurate representation of what risks police face.

There is no terrorist risk to NSW police of a level requiring this type of public comment in the media.

No guns in US courts. And the USA has liberal gun laws. And is 'great Satan'.

We are all unarmed so that makes us all soft targets to anyone with a weapon that wants to put us out of action.

many blessings yes

continue to gather this valuable information

and keep everyone accountable that is outside of the law ,

with your international connections ,this and many other matters

can be addressed in quick time

many thanks for your service

namaste

I'm not sure what you mean, but this might help you:

The Australian intelligence agencies and police forces have numbers over 30000 people.

These people are born, raised, educated and indoctrinated in Australia.

Their loyalties expressly lie with Australian government policy directives.

If they are found to be doing the wrong thing, and are told to stop, and if international intervention is required due to their arrogance or misdirected pride preventing them from changing strategy, it is nearly impossible to change the entire system due to entrenched corruption. You could send 10000 people which is a massive number and be unlikely to reduce entrenched corruption.

And that is when sanctions apply to pressure the country to change.

And at the moment Australia has international sanctions impacting upon its':

foreign intelligence services
diplomatic capabilities
trade
global image

And if things keep continuing at this rate, the Australian government agencies will destroy Australia. They either want to help their country or destroy it. And at the moment, they do not appear to be wanting to salvage Australia's viability or reputation.

And it will still have a corrupt government sector, possibly leading to a collapse of society due to the imposition of sanctions.