{"id":1879,"date":"2007-12-02T20:28:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/human-rights\/met-police-to-pilot-tasers\/1879\/"},"modified":"2007-12-02T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T20:28:47","slug":"met-police-to-pilot-tasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/human-rights\/met-police-to-pilot-tasers\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Police to pilot Tasers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/forms.theregister.co.uk\/mail_author\/?story_url=\/2007\/11\/23\/taser_met_london_fun\/\" title=\"Send email to the author\">Lewis Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The governing body of the Metropolitan Police yesterday gave approval for Tasers to be issued to non-firearms-trained police in a pilot scheme beginning next month. Similar trials are already underway with other UK police forces.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Members [of the Met Police Authority] raised legitimate concerns about broadening the use of Taser to routine policing,&#8221; said Cindy Butts, MPA deputy chair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We remain worried about the message this sends out to London&#8217;s communities about the escalation of confrontation and need further reassurance that vulnerable people&#8230; will not be adversely affected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However&#8230; Without the Met participating, this authority will be unable to influence a final decision about future use of the Taser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consequently, today we agreed that the Met participates in the trial with the following rider: I will lead an MPA working group, working with the Met to jointly monitor and evaluate the trial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to move forward and influence the national debate. Our concerns have not gone away, nor have they been answered&#8230; We will monitor these areas rigorously and ensure that the experiences of London influence national policy for the good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The MPA has agreed to let the Met deploy Tasers in the hands of non-firearms police only on the third time of asking. On two previous occasions MPA members were &#8220;dissatisfied&#8221; with the level of information provided.<\/p>\n<p>The full MPA announcement is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gnn.gov.uk\/\/Content\/Detail.asp?ReleaseID=332934&amp;NewsAreaID=2\">here<\/a>. \u00ae<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lewis Page The governing body of the Metropolitan Police yesterday gave approval for Tasers to be issued to non-firearms-trained police in a pilot scheme beginning next month. Similar trials are already underway with other UK police forces. &#8220;Members [of the Met Police Authority] raised legitimate concerns about broadening the use of Taser to routine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}