My father is a police officer ( not locally), has been for 23 years, when he first joined the department in the early 90's, the standard issue gear was West German Sig p226 in 9mm, and Beretta semi auto 12ga shotguns. About five years ago, they switched to gen 3 glock 22 and 23 in .40. He had told me earlier this year, the department was looking to upgrade to gen 4 glocks, and possibly go back to 9mm, well a month or so ago, they finally decided to stick with .40, but go to the gen 4 glocks, but here's the twist: guys and gals in uniform are going to be issued glock 35 ( the competition oriented model) and plainclothes guys will carry the glock 23. The idea behind the 35 is, as a whole, the departments qualification scores are less-than great, so by issuing the 35 with it's longer sight radius, they believe accuracy will improve. Again, back when he first joined, and for several years after, they issued ruger mini 14 as patrol rifles, then several years back, they upgraded to bushmaster ar-15s.