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Police stations store at least some ammo for training, supplying officers on patrol, and restocking officers in the rare event they need to discharge their firearm. Do police precincts store substantial additional ammo in their armory to backstop them incase of supply chain disruptions, civil disturbances, etc? And if so, is there a "typical" industry norm of X hundred or thousand rounds per officer? Or do they typically store very little beyond what officers carry in their patrol cars because they assume consumption will be very predictable and 99.99% occur during annual training?

The thought crossed my mind because of the trope of scavenging from police stations in SHTF books/movies/video games about war/zombie apocalypse/plague/etc, but I dont have any idea if it's actually sensical. Is it plausible, or is reality more along the lines of "unless it's annual firearms qual day, the local police station has a lone box of 9mm in the armory and our dashing hero would be better off scouring the city for Gadsden flags in the hope of finding tens of thousands of rounds in Bubba's closet"?

Police stations store at least some ammo for training, supplying officers on patrol, and restocking officers in the rare event they need to discharge their firearm. Do police precincts store substantial additional ammo in their armory to backstop them incase of supply chain disruptions, civil disturbances, etc? And if so, is there a "typical" industry norm of X hundred or thousand rounds per officer? Or do they typically store very little beyond what officers carry in their patrol cars because they assume consumption will be very predictable and 99.99% occur during annual training? The thought crossed my mind because of the trope of scavenging from police stations in SHTF books/movies/video games about war/zombie apocalypse/plague/etc, but I dont have any idea if it's actually sensical. Is it plausible, or is reality more along the lines of "unless it's annual firearms qual day, the local police station has a lone box of 9mm in the armory and our dashing hero would be better off scouring the city for Gadsden flags in the hope of finding tens of thousands of rounds in Bubba's closet"?

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[–] • 3 pts

Your dept. Sounds like the kind of police dept that every police dept should be learning from and taking cues from. Great reply!

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The difference being his department is the SHERIFF'S department v you talking about pole-eese. Police departments are private armed forces, owned by mayors, city councils, and such. Sheriffs departments answer to the public that voted them in office.