The Home Office has reached out to non-lethal weapons manufacturers as part of plans to reduce the number of guns in the hands of officers
The Government is looking to cut number of lethal weapons used by police officers, according to documents seen byThe Home Office has reached out to non-lethal weapons manufacturers as part of plans to reduce the number of lethal weapons in the hands of police.
As part of a “Request for Information” , which encourages suppliers of non-lethal weapons to discuss potential technology with the Home Office, the document sites UN guidelines which compel member states to move away from lethal weapons usage in policing. According to Government statistics, there were 900 more armed officers in the UK compared to 2015 in spite of the pledge to restrain lethal weapons.
Previous iterations of non-lethal weapons have proved to still have a significant threat to life, including plastic bullets. In evidence submitted by British Irish Rights Watch to parliament in 2008, the group described plastic bullets as having caused an “incalculable number of serious injuries”.The Government has recently widened the use of non-lethal weapons across the police force, as part of a flurry of policies designed to combat crime.
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