Taser use still plateau'd among firearms cops The latest quarterly figures on English and Welsh police use of Taser electro-stun weapons have been released by the Home Office. Tasings overall are up as more plods tool up with the jolt-weapons; but use remains broadly steady among firearms teams, the only police to have been equipped with Tasers for long. Home Secretary …
Actually, that's a good point.
How about a sticker dispenser, so if you get drive stunned you get a little gold star embossed with a unique ID stuck to your clothes?
Actually, given the current government it's more likely that they'd use "drive stun" to staple a £200 bill to your body. Then give the police incentives to drive-stun passers-by.
Good to see that they're using the "threaten" option rather than just reflexively tasering people, and it's good to see that they've not just gone out and tasered everyone who looked at them funny or was in posession of an offensive wife.
I mean I'd rather they weren't available, but at least they appear to be avoiding utterly excessive usage. We just need a police helmet-cam now and there'll be no worries about unneccesary police brutality.
I'd be surprised if the taser didn't log drive stuns, even if it probably won't be able to use the pretty coded confetti option in a drive stun.
As such, police torturing would cause a nice log of drive stuns (And some very agitated press, no doubt). Ofcourse, there's always the good ol' 12v battery option.
I do wonder how the police would react if you threw water on them and their taser if they threatened you? Even the dumbest of piggies must know that water and electricity are hardly a safe combination, and would think twice about using a taser when they are wet.
How about if you pour water (or better, saline) on yourself if threatened with one of these? I've seen talk of metal mesh lined clothing possibly making a taser useless, but how about wet clothing?
The figure you need to know is 6 metres. If you are further away than that, the cables will stop the darts short.
"Tasers are making a real difference on our streets, not only keeping the public safe but also protecting our police officers,"
"When I walk down the street, people rush up to me and say; 'Jacqui, please can we have more police with tasers, more ID Cards and more porno on expenses?' And I say to them; well, yes, but it's 'please MAY we have ...'"
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