Asked by: Baroness Blower (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the impact of the recent police operation at the Kurdish Community Centre in London on relations with that community.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
It is a fundamental principal of British Policing that the police are operationally independent of the government, and it is for them take decisions on enforcement action.
No assessment has been made at this time on community relations following the police operation at the Kurdish Community Centre in London.
Asked by: Baroness Blower (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government under what circumstances police officers are permitted to be in possession of (1) PAVA spray, and (2) TASER, when they are off duty.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
Decisions around the equipping of police officers with PAVA spray and TASER are operational matters for Chief Constables.