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Policing and Crime Bill

I will be very brief. The one thing that worries me about this is that it may not make much difference. Very often, people will find another weapon. It is very difficult to have something that cannot be used in some way. If you use rigid polycarbonate or other plastics, they can still be jumped on and broken. If they are rigid, they will still present a sharp edge of some sort, so you may find that you have spent a lot of money to not a huge effect, but it sounds good. When it comes to bottles, I believe that the recent Ig Nobel awards rewarded some research by someone who had found out whether it was worse to be hit over the head with an empty bottle or a full one. This may be of some use but I doubt it.