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Officials to equip GWPD officers with firearms next fall
Interim University President Mark Wrighton said the Board of Trustees approved a policy to arm roughly 20 GWPD officers with 9 mm handguns.
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Wrighton said in an interview with The Hatchet that GWPD will arm roughly 20 of about 50 total GWPD officers with 9 mm handguns in response to heightened gun violence in the United States, including recent school shootings at colleges like Michigan State University and the University of Virginia.
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GWPD Chief James Tate said the armed officers will have a rank of sergeant or higher, and many in the group are already certified to carry firearms from when they worked in other police departments and agencies before coming to GWPD.
Reality finally hit.