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Terror Attacks - Paris Police To Be Equipped With New Weapons
Parisian Police officers will be given from Monday new assault rifles and Kalashnikov-resistant shields for better protection in the event of a terror attack intervention. The weapons, up until now reserved for elite intervention forces, will allow members of certain police units “to intervene as fast as possible to reinforce the first patrols, notably when we are confronted with mass killings”.
Parisian Police officers will be given from Monday new assault rifles and Kalashnikov-resistant shields for better protection in the event of a terror attack intervention. The weapons, up until now reserved for elite intervention forces, will allow members of certain police units “to intervene as fast as possible to reinforce the first patrols, notably when we are confronted with mass killings”, said the Interior Minister, Bernard Cazeneuve.
“Some of the criminals you are confronted with no longer hesitate to use heavy weapons against you, and you must be equipped with the means to fire back, and adequate protection,” Cazeneuve told officers at a Parisian police station.
The anti-criminal (BAC) police units, who most often operate in plain clothes, will be given 204 Heckler and Koch G36 assault rifles, 1,800 bulletproof vests and 241 shields that are resistant to Kalashnikov bullets.
The new equipment, which also includes Taser guns and other items, is worth €17m (£13.3m/US$18m). A member of the BAC (Anti-Criminal Forces) police units - armed only with a handgun - was the first to arrive on scene at the Bataclan concert hall where he shot dead one of the jihadists who killed 90 people during a show.
