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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...