Is it true that London cops don't carry guns?

There are only select police officer who carry weapons in the UK. They actually have units called Armed Units and they repsond to situations that require their asistance other than that you wont see an armed police officer no matter what part of the uk you are in.

The airport has some armed police there too.

The town I live in there has only been one time that I remember where an armed unit was called to a scene and that was at a petro station where a bloke was holding his wife hostage with a knife. The armed unit arrived and 2 seconds later the bloke put the knife down.

and contrary to what some say on here gns are not outlawed in the UK, but there are very very very strick rules on who can get one, why they can get it and how it has to be kept.

It is usually limited to landowners for hunting with shotguns. There are very few regular people in the UK who are permited to have a gun and like I said it is usually just for hunting.

From the link provided below

Main articles: Uniforms and equipment of the British police and Police use of firearms in the United Kingdom
Uniforms, the issuing of firearms, type of patrol cars and other equipment varies by force. Unlike police in most other countries, the vast majority of British police officers do not carry firearms on standard patrol; they do however carry extendable batons and CS/PAVA spray. In most forces, CS spray is now obsolete, being replaced by PAVA Incapacitant Spray.

There are, however, exceptions. Every territorial force maintains specialist armed response units, while one territorial force (the Police Service of Northern Ireland) and two of the national, special police forces (the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and the Ministry of Defence Police) are routinely armed, but only within their relevant establishments and not within the public domain.

With the rare occurrence of UK Police carrying firearms, it will usually be at an airport or an armed incident. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) firearms unit is called CO19 (formerly SO19), but every force in England operates an armed response unit. Metropolitan Police and City of London Police operate with three officers per Armed Response Vehicle, a driver, the scene operator who gathers information about the incident and liasing with other units, and an observer who navigates. Other police forces carry two Authorised Firearms Officers instead of three. Armed Police carry a combination of weapons, ranging from German Heckler & Koch MP5 carbines, Heckler & Koch MSG901 Sniper rifles, Heckler & Koch Baton Guns (which fire baton rounds) and Heckler & Koch G36Cs to a number of specialist weapons such as the Remington pump-action shotgun.

Addition: They Dont carry guns becuase the british population as a whole are against gun ownership to the level they dont want their police to carry them except in extreme circumstances

last i heard no cops in the UK carry guns, just batons and stun guns. only SWAT and stuff carry guns. normal police officers do not carry guns

So if a criminal or terrorist had a, let us say AK 47. Smuggled in, let us say from Ireland. They went to a crowed area and pulled out this smuggled in AK47 and maybe a few pipe bombs, started killing innocents. How many would die before this special police force would arrive?

there are some who do carry guns but in n.ireland all cops carry guns

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Do London Police Carry Guns

yes, sad but true, as a one of the largest global financial centers and the country's capital, they should be armed, both city of london and met police should carry guns, and then other major police forces outside london

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Is it true that London cops don't carry guns?
Why don't they carry guns?

It is a fallacy to assume that the UK has less violent crime than the US, and that is why the cops there don't carry guns on routine patrol or investigation duties. The truth is that there are simply less guns in the hands of criminals, period. More guns in the hands of criminals, such as here in the US, results in more cops getting shot and vice versa. How long would the UK population put up with seeing their cops being killed on the evening news? They would rapidly arm them if for no other reason than for their own safety. Cops have loved ones at home just like everyone else, and those loved ones want them to come home at the end of every workday or night. While it's true that there are more guns available to people in the US, it's the criminals who are killing the cops and with them, as well as using them to facilitate other crimes. Not law abiding people.

Regular cops don't but they have units which are armed in case the situation is serious. Most regular cops in the UK don't carry guns however they do carry pepper spray and batons. I believe that the only place where regular cops are armed in the UK is Northern Ireland due to the tensions and conflicts over there. I have to hand it to the Brits I don't know how they do it but this would never work in the US due to the deep gun culture we have here and the crime rate is higher here unfortunately. But my hats off to the Brits for keeping the peace without the use of guns, just wish we could do the same here in the US.