Anti-Taser Petition
A petition has been created to try and encourage a leading USA research institute to dissociate itsself from supporting TASER weapons.
We the undersigned call on Johns Hopkins Hospital to disassociate itself from Taser International and to return any monies received for endorsing the weapon.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Angela Smith MP for Basildon told me by e-mail that the use of Taser guns by the police was not jubject to a vote, but was an ‘operational matter’ for the police.
March 7th, 2008 at 4:31 am
The current trial has been ordered by a Home Office Minister, it is a Home Office Minister who will make the final decision based on the results of the trial on if operational deployment of Taser outside of the firearms criteria continues beyond the end of the trial.
http://www.mpa.gov.uk/committees/mpa/2007/071025/09a.htm
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070719/wmstext/70719m0003.htm
MPs are responsible for holding ministers to account in Parliament, and can request a vote, to say simply there is no vote planned is a pretty pathetic response from an MP if they oppose a matter.