Skye Shooting: Police Response Questioned
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•Could police have handled Skye shooting differently?
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Finlay MacDonald jailed for at least 28 years for 'brutal and mindlessly violent' attacks.
MacDonald stabbed his wife Rowena and shot dead his brother-in-law John MacKinnon .
Unarmed officers were ordered not to stop him because an armed response team was on its way.
MacDonald received a shotgun certificate 15 months before the attacks and owned six weapons.
Police Scotland has a total of 494 authorised firearms officers.
A second PIRC report was handed over to Police Scotland in June 2023 , examining the involvement of its officers in the shooting in Dornie .
In England and Wales the policing minister Dame Diana Johnson has announced the introduction of new mandatory training for firearms licencing staff.
All applicants for a firearms licence must now have a digital firearms marker on their medical records.
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