Side-Handled Batons

EDM number 2039 in 1992-93, proposed by Alun Michael on 19/05/1993.

That this House calls on the Home Secretary to recognise the need to offer greater protection to police officers against the threat of violence and injury in the course of their duties; notes the belief among many police officers that use of the expandable side-handled baton would assist to reduce the risk of injury while increasing effectiveness in some dangerous situations; notes also fears that the use of such equipment could change the nature of the relationship between police and public in a way that could bring fresh danger to serving officers; believes that the lack of a sensible response is now increasing the sense of frustration amongst police officers; calls on the Home Secretary to agree to a pilot project involving the use of these batons in a selected area within each of three police forces, offering contrasting conditions for the experiment, with monitoring by the Inspectorate, the Association of Chief Police Officers, the Police Federation and an independent research team on a basis which allows assessment of operational advantages and disadvantages, police opinion, public reaction and consideration of all other relevant factors; urges that the findings of each be reported to the Home Secretary and to the Home Affairs Select Committee whose findings shall also be considered by the Home Secretary in deciding what proposals to lay before Parliament; calls for this course of action to be commenced without delay in order that the issue may be resolved speedily and in an atmosphere of co-operation amongst all concerned; and calls also for other steps to protect police officers and to tackle violence and the causes of violence in British society.

This motion has been signed by a total of 94 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Alun Michael	19/05/1993	Cardiff South & Penarth		Proposed
Mark Fisher	19/05/1993	Stoke-on-Trent Central		Signed
Jim Dowd	19/05/1993	Lewisham West		Signed
Terry Davis	19/05/1993	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Bryan Davies	19/05/1993	Oldham Central and Royton		Signed
Alistair Darling	19/05/1993	Edinburgh Central		Signed
Frank Cook	19/05/1993	Stockton North		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	19/05/1993	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Stephen Byers	19/05/1993	Wallsend		Signed
Nick Brown	19/05/1993	Newcastle upon Tyne East		Signed
Bill Olner	19/05/1993	Nuneaton		Signed
Bill O'Brien	19/05/1993	Normanton		Signed
Paul Murphy	19/05/1993	Torfaen		Signed
Estelle Morris	19/05/1993	Birmingham, Yardley		Signed
Elliot Morley	19/05/1993	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Paul Flynn	19/05/1993	Newport West		Signed
Mike Gapes	19/05/1993	Ilford South		Signed
Neil Gerrard	19/05/1993	Walthamstow		Signed
Tony Wright	19/05/1993	Cannock and Burntwood		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	19/05/1993	Carmarthen		Signed
Mike Watson	19/05/1993	Glasgow Central		Signed
Gareth Wardell	19/05/1993	Gower		Signed
Paddy Tipping	19/05/1993	Sherwood		Signed
George Stevenson	19/05/1993	Stoke-on-Trent South		Signed
Paul Boateng	19/05/1993	Brent South		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	19/05/1993	St Helens South		Signed
John Battle	19/05/1993	Leeds West		Signed
Janet Anderson	19/05/1993	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Bruce Grocott	19/05/1993	Wrekin, The		Signed
Win Griffiths	19/05/1993	Bridgend		Signed
Graham Allen	19/05/1993	Nottingham North		Signed
Nick Ainger	19/05/1993	Pembroke		Signed
Andrew Miller	19/05/1993	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
David Hanson	19/05/1993	Delyn		Signed
Peter Snape	19/05/1993	West Bromwich East		Signed
Andrew Smith	19/05/1993	Oxford East		Signed
Joan Ruddock	19/05/1993	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Ernie Ross	19/05/1993	Dundee West		Signed
Terry Rooney	19/05/1993	Bradford North		Signed
Allan Rogers	19/05/1993	Rhondda		Signed
Nick Raynsford	19/05/1993	Greenwich		Signed
Joyce Quin	19/05/1993	Gateshead East		Signed
Ken Purchase	19/05/1993	Wolverhampton North East		Signed
Gordon Prentice	19/05/1993	Pendle		Signed
Bridget Prentice	19/05/1993	Lewisham East		Signed
Raymond Powell	19/05/1993	Ogmore		Signed
Colin Pickthall	19/05/1993	West Lancashire		Signed
Mike O'Brien	19/05/1993	North Warwickshire		Signed
Geoff Hoon	19/05/1993	Ashfield		Signed
Kim Howells	19/05/1993	Pontypridd		Signed
Alan Milburn	19/05/1993	Darlington		Signed
Bill Michie	19/05/1993	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Alan Meale	19/05/1993	Mansfield		Signed
William McKelvey	19/05/1993	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
John McAllion	19/05/1993	Dundee East		Signed
Peter Mandelson	19/05/1993	Hartlepool		Signed
Calum MacDonald	19/05/1993	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
Tony Lloyd	19/05/1993	Stretford		Signed
Ron Leighton	19/05/1993	Newham North East		Signed
Roy Hughes	19/05/1993	Newport East		Signed
Adam Ingram	19/05/1993	East Kilbride		Signed
Barry Jones	19/05/1993	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	19/05/1993	Cardiff Central		Signed
Piara S Khabra	19/05/1993	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Peter Kilfoyle	19/05/1993	Liverpool, Walton		Signed
Tom Cox	20/05/1993	Tooting		Signed
John Cummings	20/05/1993	Easington		Signed
John Evans	20/05/1993	St Helens North		Signed
Norman Godman	20/05/1993	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Harry Barnes	20/05/1993	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Dennis Turner	20/05/1993	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Keith Bradley	20/05/1993	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Ken Livingstone	20/05/1993	Brent East		Signed
Peter Pike	20/05/1993	Burnley		Signed
Peter Hardy	20/05/1993	Wentworth		Signed
John Heppell	20/05/1993	Nottingham East		Signed
Glenda Jackson	20/05/1993	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Helen Jackson	20/05/1993	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Terry Lewis	20/05/1993	Worsley		Signed
John Hutton	24/05/1993	Barrow & Furness		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	24/05/1993	Leigh		Signed
Tony Banks	24/05/1993	Newham North West		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	25/05/1993	Durham, City of		Signed
Ann Coffey	25/05/1993	Stockport		Signed
Greg Pope	25/05/1993	Hyndburn		Signed
Michael Shersby	26/05/1993	Uxbridge		Signed
Edward O'Hara	26/05/1993	Knowsley South		Signed
Ian Davidson	26/05/1993	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
John Gunnell	08/06/1993	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Bill Etherington	10/06/1993	Sunderland North		Signed
Martyn Jones	10/06/1993	Clwyd South West		Signed
Geoffrey Robinson	14/06/1993	Coventry North West		Signed
Greville Janner	16/06/1993	Leicester West		Signed
Mike Hall	16/06/1993	Warrington South		Signed

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