Sentence examples for service weapons from inspiring English sources

Studies have found that most American police officers make it through entire careers without firing their service weapons.

Many of the officers carried their service weapons and wore blue armbands, and some African-American voters complained that they were steered away from the polls.

Many Swiss, after serving in the army, keep their service weapons at home, and the country has no national register for firearms.

But a growing number of the organisation's members insist that people who set out to have police kill them are essentially using officers and their service weapons as an unthinking mechanism.

He said he understood that undercover officers may need to drink alcohol to protect their cover, but said he would look into proposals to require alcohol testing for officers who have fired their service weapons.

When Penny Harrington, who went on to become the country's first female police chief of a major city, joined the Portland, Ore., Police Department in 1964, women had to wear plain clothes and carry their service weapons in their purses.

The officer's service weapon was pressed against Mr. Reid's spine when it was fired, Mr. Connelly said.

In 1993 the standard service weapon was changed to a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, which remains the norm today.

The killer climbs out of his stalled van, as the officer points his service weapon at him.

In February 1997, Detective Vasquez was arrested in State College, Pa., after drawing his service weapon during a bar fight.

They escorted him upstairs to his locker, removed his service weapon, emptied the magazines, and counted the bullets.