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  Policing and Crime Bill - Clause 35 - Police Civilians - Authorisation to Carry CS and PAVA Incapacitant Spray
  
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  @ MP voted aye not to allow Police Community Support Officers, Police Community Support Volunteers, Policing Support Officers and Policing Support Volunteers to carry PAVA and CS incapacitant spray. 
  @ MP voted no to allow Police Community Support Officers, Police Community Support Volunteers, Policing Support Officers and Policing Support Volunteers to carry PAVA and CS incapacitant spray. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted in favour of allowing Police Community Support Officers, Police Community Support Volunteers, Policing Support Officers and Policing Support Volunteers to carry PAVA and CS incapacitant spray. 
  
  MPs were considering the Policing and Crime Bill[1].
  
  The amendment rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Amendment 13, page 59, line 1, leave out subsection (9B)
  
  This amendment was accompanied by an explanatory statement saying:
  
  :This amendment removes the provision for volunteer PCSOs to be issued with CS spray and PAVA spray.
  
  The rejected amendment sought to impact Clause 35 of the Bill[2] titled ''Powers of police civilian staff and police volunteers'' which sought to restrict police civilians from using weapons regulated under the Firearms Act 1968, except CS and PAVA spray. 
  
  The Bill would have taken effect by amending [[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/30/part/4/chapter/1 Section 38 in Chapter 1 of Part 4 of the Police Reform Act 2002] titled ''Police powers for police authority employees''.  
  
  The explanatory statement appears wrong to suggest this specifically impacts volunteer PCSOs, it appears to impact all community support officers, policing support officers, community support volunteers and policing support volunteers.
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/policingandcrime.html Parliament's webpage on the Policing and Crime Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2016-2017/0003/cbill_2016-20170003_en_7.htm#pt3-ch1-pb1-l1g35 Clause 35 of the Policing and Crime Bill as at the time of the vote]
  
  
  
  
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