Britain: Five people arrested in London in connection with the murder of a woman police officer in Bradford, West Yorkshire, were taken to the northern county yesterday for questioning.
Sharon Beshenivsky (38), a mother of three children and two step-children, was shot dead on Friday after she responded to an alarm at a travel agency in the centre of Bradford.
Her colleague Teresa Milburn ( 37) was shot in the shoulder. She was released from hospital yesterday.
Police in London arrested five men and one woman in connection with the case on Saturday. Police originally said all six had been taken to West Yorkshire for questioning but later clarified that one man had remained in London.
The murder has dominated British newspapers and sparked debate over whether officers should be armed. British police do not normally carry firearms, although small specialist units do.
"Even if routine arming is not correct, we do believe that the number of authorised officers remains too low," said Jan Berry, head of the Police Federation, the body that represents all British police officers.
The government rejected a call for all officers to be armed. Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn, head of the force for which PC Beshenivsky worked, said arming police would raise as many problems as it intended to solve.
Eighty-nine police officers have been killed on duty in Britain in the last 30 years.
- (Reuters)