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The older APC is the Armet Trooper, manufactured by Armet Armoured Vehicles based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. The company later sold the vehicle design to Terradyne Armoured Vehicles and was re-branded and upgraded as the Gurhka, with several other variants introduced. The Multipurpose Patrol Vehicle (MPV) model is the most popular version for law enforcement agencies, especially for police services in Ontario like the TPS.

Terradyne Gurhkas also have some success in international markets, one of its most remarkable user is the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was able to purchase 13 custom armoured medevac vehicles through a crowdfunding effort.

The ROC Military Police Special Services Company was formed in light of the Munich Massacre and from the success of Sayaret Matkal's Entebbe Airport raid. It is one of three "Tier 1" units of the ROC Armed Forces. It is responsible for dealing with any plane hijackings in Taiwan and any other counter-terror and sabotage missions in northern Taiwan. Entering 2020, the ROC Military Police accquired new weapons for the MPSSC, namely the Centurion Arms CM4 and Battle Arms XIPHOS 9, making the MPSSC probably the only military user of such weapons.

Up till 2015, there is a large variety of pistols in service with the ROC Police with 3rd Gen S&W pistols being the most common, while Glocks and Sig Sauers are available for SWAT teams and certain detectives. Due to the pistol being obsolete and aging rendered a lot of them unserviceable, in 2015 the National Police Agency selected the Walther PPQ M2 to replace all the pistols in service. Unlike the standard M2 version, the NPA is concerned that the button mag release would lead to officers accidentally dropping the magazine as a result they requested Walther to change it to paddle release used in the M1 version, thus this version would have the "NPA" suffix to mark it as the custom batch for Taiwan. The rollout began in 2018 but was not without problems however as officers being used to the DA/SA pistols sometimes negligently discharging their pistols when clearing it and Taipei City Police Department's 389 of their around 6000 allotted pistols have their white dot falling off of their sights. It was also discovered that the first batch of pistols that arrived in Taiwan had rusty strikers.

However as years past, not much was heard about this pistol so it is likely that the problems are resolved. There is aldo quite a number of videos for Taiwan Police shooting using this pistol if you look it up.

On December 20, 2023, Toronto Police was tracking a 47 year old man who stabbed a off-duty police officer who intervened in his 4-man Best-Buy robbery 2 weeks ago. Detectives were tracking him driving the stolen U-Haul truck and attempted to make an arrest but they discover that he had earlier kidnapped someone at gunpoint. TPS followed the truck from a distance with the assistance of York Regional Police's Air 2 helicopter. The chase lasted for hours, the hostage was able to jump out of the truck, the suspect also caused multiple collisons before ETF stopped the truck with the MPV.

Before the RCMP acquired professional police armoured vehicles, the Canadian army had transferred several surplus vehicles to them for free. Models include TAV 2 Cougar AVGP and the M113 APC.

In Canada, every province has a civilian oversight agency to investigate incidents that involves police that lead to death or serious injury, the agency in Ontario is called the Special Investigation Unit. Every time they completed a report, it will be publicized and more often than not, pictures of the firearms used by the police are published as well, which is the only practical way for the general public to positively ID police weapons. I have attached the reports with the pictures.

For the most part, .40 S&W Glocks are the mainstay of Ontario police services for the past 2 or 3 decades, the 9mm pistols are usually new pistols purchased in recent years. The C8 carbine is also the only option for police services in all of Canada if they decided to buy domestically, so it is possibly the most prolific police firearms in Canada.

The RPG-26 was seized in 2012 by the Fukuoka Prefectural Police in Japan from the Kudo-Kai. The Kudo-Kai is the most violent yakuza group in Japan. Unlike almost all yakuza groups which have strict rules on who to target, the Kudo-Kai will attack anyone for any reason. They were known to commit acts of violence against non-yakuza members which is a taboo amongst the yakuza. The most heinous actions include: putting rat poison in a public bathhouse which led to 150 people injured, firing a shotgun at the Chinese consulate, shooting up a pachinko shop and city hall branch office 19 times, hurling grenades into businesses that did not pay the protection fees, assassinating community leaders and police officers that were acting against them, planting a car bomb in a police dormitory, throwing Molotov cocktails into future Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's garage and office etc.

The fourth generation head of Kudo-Kai, Nomura Satoru personally ordered a nurse to be stabbed after he was disatisfied with the results of his penis enlargement and hair removal surgery in 2013. The National Police Agency then declared the Kudo-Kai a terrorist organization and ordered the FPP to crush them. Nomura was arrested in 2014 and was sentenced to life imprisonment. The Kudo-Kai still exists but is crippled and unable to take any significant actions.

According to the police, Brazilian and Italian made firearms are a rare catch in Japan.

As China enters the 21st century, the police with a higher budget wants to replace the previously issued Type 54 and 77 pistols. Instead of following the military's footsteps, they decided to develop their own service pistol. The requirement of this pistol is that it prevents overpenetration, allows officers to subdue the criminal without killing them with one shot within 50m and that it can be used for both deadly force and riot control. With that, in 2005 Norinco successfully decide this 9mm revolver and manufacture began in 2008.

The revolver is chambered with a newly designed proprietary 9mm ammunition (not 9x19 parabellum) based on the .38 special with a reduced powder load. In addition, a rubber bullet variant is also introduced. An additional safety is also mounted above the cylinder release.

There are however, several weaknesses to this pistol, namely the cartridge fired is too weak. It is said that there is a running joke amongst the Chinese police that an officer shot a fleeing robber in the ass with this revolver and the robber immediately picked up speed afterwards. As a result, the Chinese named this revolver "the gun of kindness" and "the gun of peace"

Fortunately, this revolver is only meant for beat cops, any units that is expected to do serious shooting will use the Type 92 pistol. Swat teams in certain places like Xinjiang issues Glock 17 Gen4.

It should also be noted there is no universal rule on what firearms are used or even if firearms will be issued across the country. A recent police reality show set in Changsha shows some officers using Type 77 pistols. In 2014, Shanghai police began issuing this revolver to all beat cops and to prevent the revolver from being taken, the officer is required to keep his hand on the holster at all times. The rule may be abolished now.

As China enters the 21st century, the police with a higher budget wants to replace the previously issued Type 54 and 77 pistols. Instead of following the military's footsteps, they decided to develop their own service pistol. The requirement of this pistol is that it prevents overpenetration, allows officers to subdue the criminal without killing them with one shot within 50m and that it can be used for both deadly force and riot control. With that, in 2005 Norinco successfully decide this 9mm revolver and manufacture began in 2008.

The revolver is chambered with a newly designed proprietary 9mm ammunition (not 9x19 parabellum) based on the .38 special with a reduced powder load. In addition, a rubber bullet variant is also introduced. An additional safety is also mounted above the cylinder release.

There are however, several weaknesses to this pistol, namely the cartridge fired is too weak. It is said that there is a running joke amongst the Chinese police that an officer shot a fleeing robber in the ass with this revolver and the robber immediately picked up speed afterwards. As a result, the Chinese named this revolver "the gun of kindness" and "the gun of peace"

Fortunately, this revolver is only meant for beat cops, any units that is expected to do serious shooting will use the Type 92 pistol. Swat teams in certain places like Xinjiang issues Glock 17 Gen4.

It should also be noted there is no universal rule on what firearms are used or even if firearms will be issued across the country. A recent police reality show set in Changsha shows some officers using Type 77 pistols. In 2014, Shanghai police began issuing this revolver to all beat cops and to prevent the revolver from being taken, the officer is required to keep his hand on the holster at all times. The rule may be abolished now.

During the 1960s, Japan found itself being embroiled in massive riots organized by the New Leftists, especially during the Tokyo University Yasuda Hall siege in 1969. At the time, police armoured vehicles were just buses fitted with 2 to 3mm thick steel plates, and they were inadequate against molotov cocktails and hunting rifle fire. As a result, a specially designed armoured vehicle was sought and the F3 was put into service.

The exterior of the SSV was designed to prevent rioters from climbing it and plates were fitted to protect the tires. The SSV also has a mounted water cannon with a 1.5 ton water tank and can carry 14 officers.

It's best known deployment was during the Asama Lodge Incident in Nagano Prefecture, one of the most famous hostage incidents in Japan.

In 2013, in response to the the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the National Police Agency purchased 2 radiation protection vehicles to strengthen the police's ability to operate in irradiated zones. One such vehicle was given to the Fukushima Prefectural Police to assist in operations within the damaged power plant, the other one was given to the Metropolitan Police Department 4th Riot Police Unit in case of a nuclear attack on the capital.

In 2023, after a series of mass-stabbings, the South Korean government began procurement of the STRV9 less lethal revolver for frontline officers.

The arming of ROK police officers is quite interesting. After the democratization of Korea, to limit the power of police, its firearms and use of force powers are severely weakened and limited. As a result, only 44% of all police officers are armed. For those that are armed, a S&W M60 revolver is issued (picture 2 and 3) The hammer rests on a empty chamber, the next round is a blank followed by three rounds of .38 ball ammo, however, a veteran police officer have stated if they expect to open fire they will rotate the cylinder before hand to skip the blank round.

The STRV9 revolver will follow the same loading pattern with a blank followed by 5 less lethal rounds that penetrates 6 cm of the human body. If needed, lethal 9mm rounds can be fired. The revolver also houses a smart module similar to what the new Axon tasers have that record time and place of firing, ammo used and shooting angle etc. A safety is also mounted on the opposite side of the cylinder release. It is expected that every police officers will be armed with this by 2029.

Before the arrival of the deadline for the soldiers to storm the prison, a cooler minded prisoner leader, Barrie MacKenzie was able to release all the hostages they had taken in exchange for not getting beat up after surrendering. Once the news spread, the prisoners became convinced that the troops would just simply come in and kill all of them. As a result, hundreds of prisoners panicked and rushed to the front gate to surrender. Soldiers have to fire warning shots to maintain order.

The prisoners were immediately beaten all bloody when they were transferred to the nearby Millhaven Institution after the riot.

On December 21, 2001, a communications station operated by the Defence Intelligence Headquarters detected a sus trawler in its waters. The Japan Coast Guard was ordered to intercept the boat and dispatched 4 patrol vessels. Once the vessels approached and attempted a boarding, they came under fire from the trawler with the weapons shown in the pictures. In self-defence, the patrol vessels unleashed their mounted JM61-RFS cannons (picture 5) while the crew fired their Type 64 7.62 mm rifles upon the trawler. The trawler was scuttled after six hours of firefight but not before transmitting their last message, "Party, this child will be your loyal subject forever! Manse!"

Japanese authorities was able to salvage the wreck of the ship in 2003 and determined that it is a spy ship from North Korea disguised as a Chinese or Japanese fishing trawler. In the wreck, they were able to seize a ZPU-2 mounted on the stern (picture 1), a 82mm recoil-less rifle, 2 9K310 Igla MANPADS (picture 2), 2 RPG-7s, 2 Type 82 machine guns (picture 3), and 4 AKS-74s or its North Korean variant Type 88-1 rifles (picture 4) The seized weapons along with the wreckage of the ship are now on display in the Yokohama Maritime Disaster Prevention Base. Picture 6 shows the bridge of the JCG patrol ship Amami on display in the Japan Coast Guard Musuem in Hiroshima. The bridge was heavily damaged by when the North Korean shot at it. The ship was not armoured and three crew members were injured as a result.

In 2023, after a series of mass-stabbings, the South Korean government began procurement of the STRV9 less lethal revolver for frontline officers.

The arming of ROK police officers is quite interesting. After the democratization of Korea, to limit the power of police, its firearms and use of force powers are severely weakened and limited. As a result, only 44% of all police officers are armed. For those that are armed, a S&W M60 revolver is issued (picture 2 and 3) The hammer rests on a empty chamber, the next round is a blank followed by three rounds of .38 ball ammo, however, a veteran police officer have stated if they expect to open fire they will rotate the cylinder before hand to skip the blank round.

The STRV9 revolver will follow the same loading pattern with a blank followed by 5 less lethal rounds that penetrates 6 cm of the human body. If needed, lethal 9mm rounds can be used. The revolver also houses a smart module similar to what the new Axon tasers have that record time and place of firing, ammo used and shooting angle etc. It is expected that every police officers will be armed with this by 2029.