British Police May Use Water Cannon to Control Violent Demonstrations

Scotland Yard is to review its policing of violent demonstrations after the G20 protests to see if London needs harsher, European-style methods that could include the use of water cannon.

Sir Paul Stephenson, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said that they would look at the more robust tactics used by other European police forces.

“Is this the price we pay for not having the paramilitary equipment that our colleagues would have on the Continent?”

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