[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Toronto Police are asking to put 184 more tasers (there are currently 517 ), costing $386,000, on the streets, but the oversight board is wary following public reaction in August following the Sammy Yatim shooting – he was tasered while dying from firearm bullets). This will increase the taser arsenal by […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: What is surprising in this TASER International press release is the major international order for taser cartridges: 57,000 (sold usually at about $27 per unit: value of c. $1,500,000). Client confidentuiality of course means we will know no more. One might note also: “TASER protects life. TASER(R) Conducted Electrical Weapons (CEWs) have […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: Two elements in the press release merit attention: (1) 5 significant orders of taser products, of which 2 by unnamed “international law enforcement agencies” (why so much discretion?). A larger proportion – about 16,000 – of the 5 sales-orders are for cartidges, which sell at about $27 each ($432,000). (2) A completely spurious […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Announcing an international order and typically respecting client confidentiality (Why?), a TASER press release announces “the purchase of 60,000 TASER® cartridges as an international follow-on order to support a continuing multi-year TASER® X26™ electronic control device program. Further customer information is not being released at this time. Also AXON and other taser […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Possibly armed suspect shot in SWAT operation with 2 wireless XREP rounds. 220 US agencies trialing or adopting XREPs, according to TASER Inc. “It’s “the first long-range Taser weapon out there,” said Steve Tuttle, spokesman for the Arizona-based company. “This is for the long-range standoff situations or when someone is barricaded and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: This order was placed by “an unnamed international agency”. The “accessories” refers principally to the cartridges, which retail for about $26 each (total $1.53 million, if they were all cartridges). “Shares of Taser, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., gained 15 cents, or 3.9 percent, to $4 in premarket trading …” Associated Press Taser […]
[[Summary / Comments: As British police face major cutbacks in the Cameron “20% cut” budget, they are turning more to tasers to solve their problems: TASER CEO Rick Smith announces sales order of 16,000 cartridges (our estimate of value: about $500,000) to UK … TASER is clearly happy about the positive publicity resulting from the […]
This is the French National Police’s specifications for companies to bid for a contract for conducted electrity weapons (6500 pistols and holsters and 48,000 cartridges)