Frontline police officers should be able to carry a Taser to combat attempted attacks on them by terrorists, according to the head of the organisation that represents them.
Police Federation chair Steve White said the stun guns, which can temporarily disable the target with two dart-like electrodes that carry a maximum 50,000-volt charge, should be made more widely available to uniformed officers.
He told The Guardian newspaper the move was needed because acts of terrorism could be carried out anywhere and officers needed protection.
Mr White said: "The terrorist ideal to get attention no longer relies on an attack being in a place of note.
"It could be in Cheam high street, in any town, in any part of the UK.
"We know there are more dangerous people out there, preparing to attack police officers and we need to be able to respond to that threat."
Leaders at the Police Federation will vote next month on a proposal that every officer on the frontline should be offered training in how to use the weapons.
Mr White said: "Talking to them with a cup of tea and a biscuit is not going to work."
The murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013 showed "you don't need to have a gun to create terrorism", said Mr White, who rejected the notion the move amounted to arming officers.
"It is a defensive tool and a tactical option.
"We have a largely unarmed service and the service wants that to remain.
"The alternative is to have officers out there without anything at all. We have to do something."
But one police chief, speaking anonymously, told The Guardian the idea risked damaging public confidence in the police.
"The idea of arming every police officer with a Taser is alien to 200 years of police culture," they said.
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Gallery: Taser Device Explained
The most common device used by police is the X26 Taser, which has a peak voltage of 50,000 volts when discharged - this drops to 1,200 volts while travelling around the body
The Taser fires two small dart-like electrodes which stay connected to the main unit as they are propelled by small compressed nitrogen charges to the body similar to air gun or paintball marker propellants
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