Comments on: Anti-Taser Petition http://www.taser.org.uk/taser/38 Keeping an eye on UK Police TASER usage Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:27:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: admin http://www.taser.org.uk/taser/38#comment-247 admin Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:31:10 +0000 http://www.taser.org.uk/taser/38#comment-247 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. 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.

]]> By: John Cord http://www.taser.org.uk/taser/38#comment-246 John Cord Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:19:07 +0000 http://www.taser.org.uk/taser/38#comment-246 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. 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.

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