Tasers in Written Answers, Statements and Debates in UK Parliament
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Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill: Committee (5th Day) (24 Jan 2012)
Lord Alton of Liverpool: ...through life. A few months ago we saw what happens when there is an unregulated approach to these matters. At Dale Farm there was a terrible culmination in violence that involved the use of Tasers. We saw the police having to be pitted against members of the Traveller community as they were evicted from their homes. That is not a sight that most of us want to see repeated on a regular...
[Mr Graham Brady in the Chair] — Policing (12 Jan 2012)
Julian Huppert: ...Under the Labour Government, ACPO-a largely unaccountable body-was given responsibility for safeguarding some of our basic human freedoms. A private company had the role of deciding how tasers should be used when such weapons, if misused, can be deadly. It had similar control over DNA. ACPO sent me an astonishing letter when questions were being asked about how people could...
Written Answers — House of Lords: Police: Tasers (1 Nov 2011)
Lord Alton of Liverpool: To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to discuss the use of tasers with the Association of Chief Police Officers; and what assessment they have made of the use of tasers at Dale Farm in the light of the Association of Chief Police Officers' 2008 guidance on their use.
Seagulls (Coastal Towns) (26 Oct 2011)
James Paice: ...is a crucial issue, but one to which all measures that I have referred to can be applied. In addition, I am advised that hand-held laser torches- I think it says laser, although it could be taser; I am reading my notes out because I have difficulty believing this-have been used at reservoirs with some success. I will leave my hon. Friend to work out exactly how. A PhD study is...
[Sir Alan Meale in the Chair] — Police Forces (5 Jul 2011)
Tom Brake: ...a matter for the police and crime commissioner. That requires further clarification, because if the police and crime commissioner, for example, decided that no money at all was going to be spent on Tasers, thereby stopping the police using them, some might argue that that was interfering with operational matters. It would be helpful to have further clarity on the circumstances surrounding...
Written Answers — House of Lords: Government Departments: Research and Data (23 Jun 2011)
Baroness Browning: ...set for evaluation of video analytic systems Physical Sciences external research continued and completed by HOSDB (Now CAST) 12 May 2010 to June 2011. Continued collation of data on police TASER usage Research on body armour ("Behind Armour Blunt Trauma") project jointly with USA Student research projects in the area of fingerprint forensics Research and development for...
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill — Committee (3rd Day) (Continued) (24 May 2011)
Lord Carlile of Berriew: ...to operational matters and that of the other finance officer to the rather different strategic matters? There, perhaps, we have the answer to the question of the noble Lord, Lord Harris, about Tasers. Tasers are the sort of thing which may well be strategic and one would expect to be discussed by the commissioner and those to whom he is accountable, whatever structure we end up with at the...
Written Answers — Home Department: Departmental Research (24 May 2011)
Damian Green: ...data set for evaluation of video analytic systems Physical Sciences external research continued and completed by HOSDB (Now CAST) May 2010 to May 2011. Continued collation of data on police Taser usage Research on body armour (“Behind Armour Blunt Trauma”) project jointly with USA. Student research projects in the area of fingerprint forensics Research and development for...
Alcohol Marketing: New Clause 5 — Memorandum of Understanding (30 Mar 2011)
Vernon Coaker: ...I am making. An individual will stand for election in a police force area, saying, “I will ensure that there are X number of officers in this area and that area. I don’t want to see Tasers used. I don’t want to see such-and-such equipment used. I want to see the police patrolling not in pairs, but singly. I don’t want to see police in cars.” It will not be...
Written Answers — Home Department: Northumbria Police: Stun Guns (14 Mar 2011)
Nick Herbert: The last published figures show that Taser was used by Northumbria police 884 times between April 2004 and 30 September 2009. It was discharged 152 times over the same period. Previously published figures on the use of Taser can be found on the archived Home Office website at: http://tna.europarchive.org/20100419081706/http://www.police...
Arms Trade: Libya and North Africa — Question (9 Mar 2011)
Lord Razzall: ...agree that the question goes slightly beyond the sale of military equipment and arms referred to in the Question asked by the noble Lord, Lord Alton? Will he confirm that the sale of such items as Taser guns, tear gas and other material, which are clearly being used in north Africa and the Middle East to suppress legitimate democratic uprisings, will be banned by this Government?
Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Tasers (7 Feb 2011)
Bridget Phillipson: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information her Department holds on the (a) number of X12 Tasers and (b) quantity of ammunition for such devices held by each police force.
Written Answers — Home Department: Police: Tasers (7 Feb 2011)
Julian Huppert: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department for what reason her Department has ceased regular publication of statistics on police use of Taser weapons; when data from the fourth quarter of 2009 and from 2010 will be published; whether routine publication will resume; and if she will take steps to provide timely and informative statistics in future publications.
Scottish Parliament written answers — Firearms: Firearms (7 Feb 2011)
Patrick Harvie: To ask the Scottish Executive whether its position on the entitlement of chief constables to deploy Taser weapons to frontline officers extends to the other weapons with the same legal classification under section 5 of the Firearms Act 1968.
Public Bill Committee: Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill: Clause 1 (25 Jan 2011)
Nick Herbert: ...not been previous discussion with their police authority about the use of water cannon and the authority had then agreed to that use. Such previous discussion is required for the use of force such as Tasers, and some authorities do not permit the use of such force. Furthermore, the Home Secretary has pointed out that the use of water cannon has to be authorised by the Home Secretary in the...
Public Bill Committee: Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill (18 Jan 2011)
...and a chief constable negotiate the local policing plan. To the best of my knowledge, chief constables and police authorities up and down the land are not quibbling about whether the use of Tasers on a demonstration, or having officers work in pairs or wearing stab vests should go in the local policing plan. There is already a bit of collective wisdom and experience of doing this stuff....
Public Bill Committee: Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill (18 Jan 2011)
Julian Huppert: ...is a live issue within the Cambridgeshire police authority? Let us say that under the new model a police commissioner was elected, having said that they did not want officers in their force to use Tasers. If the chief constable wanted to use a Taser, whose decision would that be? I would be interested in a relatively brief response from all four of you, because this issue highlights the...
Bill Presented: Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill (13 Dec 2010)
Mark Reckless: ...get the impression from Opposition Members that police forces operate and are directed in a political vacuum. Surely, it is entirely appropriate that police authorities should determine whether Tasers, for example, should be used. None of us would expect police to start using water cannon and that sort of operational tactic without political permission and oversight.
Detention of Palestinian Children (West Bank) (7 Dec 2010)
Ian Lavery: ...that is a disgrace, and a clear violation of international law? Has he made the strongest representations about the failure to hold those soldiers to account? We heard of disturbing new cases of tasers being used on children during interrogation. Will the Minister look into that as a matter of urgency? Young people were threatened with electric shocks, and the threat alone convinced many...
Scottish Parliament written answers — Firearms: Firearms (16 Nov 2010)
Robert Brown: To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the draft framework produced by the Scottish Human Rights Commission setting out shared responsibilities for the use of taser guns.
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November 17th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
I believe stun guns are probably better than the alternative, which is live firearms. I’d rather be stunned by a police officer than shot to death.
November 17th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
I agree, I too would rather be TASERed than shot with a gun, and that is why I do not oppose firearms officers having access to TASERs to use an alternative to firearms. What I oppose is the expansion of TASER use to include non-firearms officers, and situations where firearms would not have been considered.