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Similarly, the free world’s police establishment has been responsive to the 92 series. The French national gendarmes carry the 92G, and the South African police issue the Z-88. But nowhere have police taken to the Beretta with more street-proven enthusiasm than the United States. Crisscrossing the nation, major departments carry it: Maine State Police to Los Angeles County Sheriffs, Washington State Patrol to Florida Highway Patrol, and countless major agencies in between. From New Orleans (92F) to St. Louis (92D) to San Francisco (96G), the Beretta is as well represented among city cops as among their state and county cousins. Of the four types of handguns authorized to LAPD personnel, the 92F is the overwhelming favorite and the one issued to new recruits at the academy.

The Beretta 92 has been – and still is – widely carried by American law enforcement officers.

Nor have the Feds ignored the Beretta. When I taught at the DEA Academy I noticed a disproportionate number of 92Fs on the hips of agents training for the high-risk Operation Snowcap in South America, despite the fact that most Drug Enforcement Agents preferred something smaller on the list of approved 9mm pistols for daily plainclothes carry. The U.S. Postal Service inspectors are said to have adopted the Beretta.