This then is liberal Britain: a country where police responsible for over 50 million people fired guns in just 4 incidents, and where a large police force can go over 3 years without firing a gun at all.".

Just as well really since they seem to be able to raise a small army to deal with a drunken man with a shotgun trapped in his own house. Or they can shoot an innocent Brazilian electrician and get away with it, or a slightly inebriated man leaving a pub with a table leg under his arm, or an obviously unarmed man standing naked in his bedroom, or someone they 'mistook'for a wanted police murderer - amazingly he survived.

Of course no charges were brought and, if required to attend the inquest, they can expect anonymity. It can't get much safer than that on the streets.