Torture tactics employed by the British in Cyprus included the use of beatings, public floggings, clean beatings, forced standing, ice, and drugs. Other torture included anal and vaginal insertion of hot eggs, a tactic also employed by the British in Kenya. A British Special Branch interrogator in Cyprus stated that he had devised the "hot egg under the armpit" technique". In a few instances electrotorture was also applied. Jack Taylor, a British policeman who was sent to Cyprus in September 1956 revealed that there were beatings of prisoners, while British Brigadier Harbottle confirmed that the British Special Branch used torture. These statements confirm the use of torture in Cyprus by the British, although how widespread and frequent the use of torture was remains unclear.