Seems like many cops consider their sidearm to be a tool and not one that they're particularly interested in mastering, during the majority of their time on duty. Might to be more common with larger city forces, than with smaller ones. I know a few cops that are interested enough to train extensively (mostly on their own time), to become more proficient with their issue pistols. Most are not in that group.

We have two local PDs that use our club facilities to qualify/train. They each do that twice per year, over multiple days per session. Both have gotten more into it in the past several years. These are PDs with less than two dozen officers that patrol mostly suburban/rural areas. Each PD has a few officers that spend far more time on our ranges than their fellow officers, so that's a plus.

Both PDs now have individual AR "patrol rifles" and they've picked up the pace on training with them. It's only been the past few years that both PDs equips each officer with a rifle. At one time, both only had a few such rifles and trained sporadically with them. Typical session now, is one day on rifles and shotguns, other two days on handguns. Some time spent with their Tasers.Our LEO training area is now "littered" with barricades, barrels and steel targets that once weren't part of the deal.

I can attest from personal observations, that they've become far more proficient over the past decade, than they once were.

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