Five of six largest police forces do not want water cannon
▻http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/04/police-forces-opposed-to-water-cannon
Five of the six largest forces in England and Wales said they were against deploying water cannon on their streets, with one police chief dismissing them as being “as much use as a chocolate teapot” for quelling disorder.
The Metropolitan police and the London mayor, Boris Johnson, are pressing the case for water cannon to be deployed in the capital as soon as summer, amid warnings that austerity could fuel disorder.
But the views of the other forces leave the Met in isolation, weeks before it is expected to ask the home secretary for formal approval. The police and crime commissioners (PCCs) for the forces in Greater Manchester, West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Merseyside and Thames Valley have all rejected the idea and suggested they would be unwilling to share the cost.