Island’s UK delegate attempts to get Taser ammo ban overturned

Saturday 22nd January 2011, 2:29PM GMT.

Geoff Mahy THE UK minister with responsibility for the Crown Dependencies is working to end a ban on exporting Taser ammunition to Guernsey.

Home Minister Geoff Mahy said he raised the issue with Lord McNally when he visited the island last year.

Guernsey Police first started using the weapons in 2006 but have been unable to buy replacement cartridges because the island is not on an approved list of arms traders.

‘We have limited replacement darts because we do have to have regular training, so we are running out,’ said Deputy Mahy (pictured).

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Ray

January 22, 2011 at 3:47 pm

The Taser website suggests it is an American company

Have we tried importing spares directly from there? I would think their laws on instruments of torture are rather more lax than ours

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bcb

January 22, 2011 at 9:11 pm

Just tell them we got some oil and the bloke who owns the land wont let us drill for it.
They will list him as a threat to national security and we get any weapons we need.

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Mr G

January 23, 2011 at 9:15 am

Why do we need tasers? If there are so many gun wielding criminals on the drug baron island of Guernsey, surely the gun wielding criminal is gonna win??

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Ray

January 26, 2011 at 9:56 am

See 25 January Press at La Gazette Officielle

HM Greffier gives notice that the Ordinance entitled The Al-Qaida and Taliban (Freezing of Funds)(Guernsey) Ordinance 2011 has been registered

Couple that with the purchase of armoured police vehicles and the need for Taser spares and little old tomato and freesia growing Guernsey is truly claiming its position in the big wide world

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