Quoted in the Hackney Gazette

Are Tasers being used for social control asks Hackney campaigner, warning of “death on the streets”

by Emma Bartholomew, Senior Reporter Monday, April 29, 2013
12:58 PM

Sophie Khan, solicitor and director of the Police Action Centre, told the public meeting in Chat’s Palace, Brooksby’s Walk, Homerton, about the judicial review she is bringing against the Met and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC).
She said: “It’s very much been hidden behind private letters between the Mayor and the Commissioner. There aren’t the reports that are usually produced, so people aren’t aware why there is this increase in Tasers.
Restrictions
“The Metropolitan Police Authority were opposed to the use of Tasers and when it was dissolved last year the Mayor’s office pushed it through.”
She added: “There has to be some accountability as to why that decision was made and if that decision wasn’t made properly there have to be restrictions as to the roll out. And if the public don’t want this, then to roll back.”

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