Simon Chesterman, the armed policing lead for the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC), has said that all police officers on routine patrol should be allowed to carry stun guns. In a Sunday Times interview, Chesterman suggested that a wider rollout of the weapons would be supported given growing threats to frontline officers. The NPCC has previously stated that the number of officers in a force who are trained and equipped with stun guns would remain a decision for individual chief constables. He said: “I personally would not want to be a frontline patrol officer now without Taser. My view is that if an officer wants to carry it and they can meet the standard, they should be allowed to carry it. I think we should be having more of a conversation with the public about this. I hope we will see an increasing rollout of Taser.”