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UK: Met police get first water cannon for use on British streets - Boris Johnson splashed out more than £200,000 on the secondhand crowd quelling machines

10 July 2014

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"The Metropolitan police have received the first water cannon bought for use on the streets of the British mainland."

See the article: Met police get first water cannon for use on British streets - Boris Johnson splashed out more than £200,000 on the secondhand crowd quelling machines (Guardian, link)

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