I agree that Walther's commercial department can learn a lot from Glock's, Beretta's or Springfield's dept. but one can ask himself if Walther is interested in larger orders ? I've got a strong feeling that their company policy rather emphasizes on small bore target guns and they consider big bore LE guns not their primary target. In the past they had some bad experiences where they lost out from various competitors like Beretta, SIG and H&K on the LE market (cfr. the P5 and P88 pistols, the WA 2000 sniper rifle and the MP submachine gun). On the other hand they sure keep low profile because few people know which countries adopted the P99. Just two weeks ago I was surprised to see the cops in Spain carrying a P99 on their hips. About a year ago I saw the same in Portugal. As for the other European countries :
Poland : might have adopted the P99 (gonna check it out in the fall when I'm going to Poland)
Germany : till now I never saw a German police officer carrying a P99
UK : adopted by undercover LE officers ?
The Netherlands : their might be talks going on between the Dutch LE community and Walther in view of the upcoming replacement of their P5s. The Dutch military adopted the Glock tough.
If anybody can add some info about the P99 on duty (in the US or Canada), please keep us posted !
As for the civilian European market : on 1 single occasion I saw a fellow shooter using a P99, that's all.