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UK: LONDON: Assembly demands transparency over expansion of police weaponry

15 October 2013

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"The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) and the Mayor of London must make the case for increasing the number and range of weapons used to police London, a new report from the London Assembly says."

See full text: Assembly demands transparency over expansion of police weaponry (link)

And see: Arming the Met: The deployment of less-lethal weapons in London (pdf)

And Statewatch database: Thousands more Tasers issued to police in London

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