COL "Less Lethal Weapons"

Waiting for an internal review by City of London Police of their handling of this request.

Dear City of London Police,

Further to: COL/13/563

In which you reply to the following question:

"8. Non-lethal weapons, tasers.
City of London Police presently owns 28 Less Lethal Weapons."

I am interested in the fact you use the words "Less Lethal" when the request stated "Non Lethal".

Can you please provide me with the following information:
Of the 28 weapons included in the count, what were these weapons.

F1) At what section of the request were police batons ETC included. Should I, a member of the public go into the street with a baseball bat ETC, I would surely be considered as carrying an offensive weapon. - Which category would this fall under? Non Lethal, or Lethal?
F2) Do the COL police consider police battons as weapons?

Please also consider questions F1 and F2 for the following items of "weapons" that may well be held by COLP:

(For definitions of any of the weapons, plese see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:No... )

A
Acoustic hailing device
Active Denial System

B

C
Cattle prod
Chili grenade

D
Dazer Laser
Dazzler (weapon)
Directed-energy weapon

E
Electrified water cannon
Electrolaser
Electroshock weapon

G
Gas pistol
Gay bomb
Graphite bomb
Gun F/X Tactical Development

H
Hand grenade

K
Kubotan

L
Lathi
LED Incapacitator
Long Range Acoustic Device

M
Malodorant
MEDUSA (weapon)
Microwave auditory effect

N
Non-lethal weapon

P
Personnel halting and stimulation response rifle
Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons
Psychochemical weaponry
Pulsed Energy Projectile

S
Sai (weapon)
Skunk (weapon)
Smoke grenade
Sonic weapon

S cont.
Sticky foam
Stink bomb
Stun belt
Stun grenade
StunStrike
Surujin

T
Taser
Tear gas
TOMA (vehicle)

U
United Campaign Against Plastic Bullets

V
Veiling-glare laser
Vigilant Eagle

W
Water cannon
Who Me

Z
ZM-87

Yours faithfully,

Wayne Pearsall

Dear City of London Police,

further to : https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c... (My request 172865) please also add the count of each of the weapons i state on the list.

Yours faithfully,

Wayne Pearsall

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Dear Mr Pearsall

The term 'less lethal' is used because it cannot be guaranteed that any weapon could never be lethal. The 28 weapons referred to consist of Tasers and baton launchers.

All operational Police officers are provided with a baton.

In respect of your list of potential weapons, may I ask you to refine your list please to include only items that a police force could reasonably be believed to possess?

Please contact me if I can be of further assistance.

Yours sincerely,

Dave Lockyear
Information Access Manager

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Dear FOI,

"In respect of your list of potential weapons, may I ask you to refine your list please to include only items that a police force could reasonably be believed to possess?"

I am unsure as to how I could be expected to know what police reasonably possess? In my opinion, police should not be expected to carry any sort of firearms, yet they do.

I note that your time to comply with my valid FOI request is nearing its end...

Yours sincerely,

Wayne Pearsall

Dear FOI,

RE: my last message (172865) let me also correct my statement that your time is running out to has actually ran out yesterday.

Im raising a complaint in relation to this and the fact that you have failed to provide a prompt response. If you do not hold any of the listed weapons, then your response would of simply needed to be F1: ('Weapon') ZERO / F2: Yes / No or Information not held.

it really wasn't that hard of a request.

Yours sincerely,

Wayne Pearsall

Dear City of London Police,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of City of London Police's handling of my FOI request 'COL "Less Lethal Weapons"'.

Your response is late. Please provide your response.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/c...

Yours faithfully,

Wayne Pearsall