UK: Police test water-propelled CS spray

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Less than a year after the issue of CS gas spray canisters to the police a new water propelled spray is set to begin live trials. The new sprays, tested to military specifications by Paines Wessex, and touted as a "safer" product, will be tested in Surrey. Surrey and Hertfordshire police forces pulled out of tests of the sprays currently in use expressing concern over the MIBK chemical agent claiming that it was a "mutagen, a chemical which could possibly cause harm to an unborn foetus and future pregnancies."

Police Review 14.2.97.

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