Riot Control Weapons: USA

(asked on 22nd July 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has licensed exports of riot control equipment where the end user was the US Marshals Special Operations Group, a division of the US Department of Justice, in the last five years.


Answered by
Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
This question was answered on 1st September 2020

Export licences have been granted for riot control equipment for potential end users that include law enforcement agencies, via end users such as stockists/distributors.

However, none of the licences identified specifically reference the US Marshals Special Operations Group, nor the United States Customs and Border Protection Agency.

There are also Open General Export Licences available for exporters to register and use, which have scope for riot control equipment to be exported to the US and these are available to view on GOV.UK. These have no requirement to specify end user customers.

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