Billed as a safer alternative to conventional firearms, it fires a 3in plastic bullet and is designed to bridge the gap between guns and less dangerous weapons such as CS spray. However ...

A machete-wielding man who was holding two children hostage was disarmed today when police fired a plastic bullet at him. The bullet ended a four-hour siege during which police negotiators had ...

Work stoppages throughout province to mark death of Keith White, hit by a plastic bullet during riot in Portadown on Easter Monday. Report shows exterior Ballymena Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC ...

There is “no justification” for the Government to withhold a file on a boy killed by a police plastic bullet in Londonderry in 1981, a former police ombudsman for Northern Ireland has said. Paul ...

Seamus Duffy, a fifteen-year-old from Balcarry Street in north Belfast, was shot dead by a plastic bullet fired by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) during a night of violence in Belfast marking ...