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The OP said the officers were females.

I've read that female officers, being genrally smaller and weaker than males, have to resort to firearms in situations where males would not.

Now, I realize that some female officers may be as big as Matilda the Hun, and some male officers would make Barney Fife look like a real he-man, but maybe in this case engaging in hand-to-hand with a perp swinging a chair would be entirely unreasonable.