Not only do we have young lads being stabbed in broad daylight (as blogged about earlier), but we are now having police targeted in drive-by shootings with automatic weapons. It's gotten so bad that the government is thinking about making the wearing of body armour compulsory outside the few places in London where this is already the case. This thought is also helped by the fact that the police officer shot was saved from more serious injury by her body armour.
The L.A.S has given us all body armour - which I have worn perhaps three times "in anger" but have worn on a couple of nightshifts just because it makes a nice body warmer. I can see our management making us wear our armour all the time, in one of those knee-jerk reactions that we all know and love from working for the N.H.S. It'd be a shame not only because they are heavy, uncomfortable and restrict your movement; but also because by trying to squeeze into it, I can see how much weight I've put on in the last few months.