Police voted in Port Macquarie on Tuesday to not attend court in person if they are not allowed to carry weapons in NSW courts.
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The meeting of officers from Gosford to Tweed Heads was triggered by recent incidents where people brought weapons to or attacked police at court.
There is a statewide rule that police are unable to carry firearms or appointments inside courtrooms, however some magistrates make exceptions.
This appears to be the case in Port Macquarie under magistrate Thomas Hodgson, with officers appearing as witnesses and prosecutor Sergeant Jason France regularly armed in court.
Executives from the Police Association of NSW spoke to members in Port Macquarie on Tuesday
The union's president Scott Weber said Tamworth magistrate Michael Holmes' decision to allow officers to bring firearms into his court was a "common sense approach".
"But what we're saying is enough is enough," Mr Weber said. "The most criminals in the state are in jail or a courtroom.
"Many of these people are violent and they're not going to be happy about their sentences, so why wouldn't you have an officer in uniform armed in the room?"
The representative said the association has been campaigning for a permanent change for "some time".
But a recent attack on a prosecutor at Sydney's Downing Centre and a man bringing a large knife into Grafton court had prompted a statewide drive to shift the rule.
"Our entire workplace is NSW and it just seems ludicrous that we can't go into the courtroom with our full capability.
"Our members are very nervous because they know what that offender's done over three or four year, and they know it can be a very volatile environment.
"We just don't want anyone to be seriously injured or killed, and we want police to be able to use their full training."
The association's upper northern representative Brett Henderson-Smith moved a motion that if the situation wasn't "rectified" by Friday, officers would not appear in person at court.
He said the alternative is for police to give evidence remotely via audio visual link, after they "report to their superior they could be in an unsafe work environment".
The motion was seconded by lower northern representative Dean Koenig and swiftly passed unanimously.
"We've been promised so many times that this is going to be rectified," Mr Weber said. "We need the judiciary to come on board because we've been hitting a brick wall time and time again."