Many other variations on rubber bullets exist, including rubber-coated metal bullets, rubber plugs, plastic bullets, called baton rounds, and beanbag rounds _ fabric beanbags about the size of a tea bag filled with lead pellets.
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Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner Stephen Kavanagh confirmed that police in London were considering using baton rounds against rioters, not previously used by mainland police in public order operations ( though they were first approved for use in England and Wales in 2001 ).
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The second method is to put the shaft through the hole, and then spin the baton round and round, with the rough inside of the hole either wearing away the wood to achieve a tapering point, or marking areas to be whittled; it could then be fire-hardened.
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At least one man attempted to pull aside one of the knife rests, but was restrained by a steward as the crowd jeered the soldiers and RUC . Eventually the crowd in front of the barrier began to thin, and youths started to stone the troops, who responded with baton rounds.
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Eyewitnesses report that loyalists hijacked a bus and set fire to it near the scene of the previous nights rioting and that the PSNI have deployed water cannon in an effort to quell the violence Reports say that in the Monday night violence 15 PSNI officers were injured, it has also been reported that the PSNI started to fire baton rounds to quell the violence.
