Riot Control Weapons
(asked on 24th February 2015) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the (a) total cost of training police officers in the use of water cannons and (b) cost of such training to each police force.
This question was answered on 27th February 2015
In 2013, the Home Office paid £2.87 million for the cost of police training in
relation to G8 Summit, and this included training of English and Welsh police
officers to be deployed alongside water cannon.
All other decisions and assessments relating to the training of police officers
in the use of water cannon would be an operational decision for Chief
Constables.