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If your department/divisional commander states you are fit to be an authorised firearms officers, then that is what your ACC should rely on. Confirm in writing that you have his recommendation, get reports from your supervising officers stating your suitability for the role.
To say you have been contaminated in non home office tactics is a poor excuse, the army do not train to home ofice rule for firearms tactics so when an ex soldier leaves the army and joins the police and later goes on to apply for firearms duty, how does that effect him?
CO19 train with numerous firearms teams all over the world from the FBI to GIGN, they are not home office approved as they are units of another country.
You have plenty to go on there, what i will say though is that it was probably naive to send photos like you said to your old unit. Firearms departments do not like, i will use the word kindly "gun nuts". It was the same for SO19/CO19. We come to work do our duty, finish the duty and go home. That is where possibly a stigma has been attached to you from these pictures and its probably the stigma which is the reason they will not allow you to carry again.
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