[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Wider rollout of tasers in Victoria: Officers in all 24-hour stations in country Victoria will get Tasers after police trialled the devices in six major regional centres, mostly in cases of people either on drugs or alcohol or with mental illness or a combination of factors trying to do harm to themselves […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : Police officers in the US territoty of Samoa (pop. 55,000) are about to receive handguns and a training program in non-lethal arms, starting off with the use of the baton, the use of the pepper spray and the use of the tasers. “We’re going to start very small, maybe beginning with […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : At a 4-day “Australasian Electronic Device conference” in Wellington, New Zealand, New Zealand police say they will not consider stopping the use of tasers. The police say that sionce Tasers were introduced in New Zealand in March 2010 after being trialled in 2006 and 2007 they have discharged tasers 212 times, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Using truly frightening logic, the police in this small Maine township – population 10,800 – have purchased 3 taser rifles, able to shock from 100 ft awa, with a 20-second discharge. This is to “calm situations” help a distraught person (who) could be killed or seriously injured” – i.e. the psychiatrically disturbed. […]
[[Summary / Comments : US Marines and Special Operations units provide training to Thai police and military in use of tasers and other non-lethal weapons, starting May 30, ‘strengthening military-to-military ties’ …]] Defense Video and Imagery Distribution Systems (DVIDS), Story by Sgt. Heather BrewerSmall III Marine Expeditionary Force Public Affairs Marines and sailors with Special […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: (Note this article does not link AXON to tasers, nor to EVIDENCE.com) The RCMP and Calgary police are seriously tryng out TASER Inc’s “AXON” head-held camera system, designed, according to the corporation, to protect police officers from litigation (“Police tout video as a means of documenting their side of the story when […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Following a $70,000 settlement in a videotaped police brutality case in which the taser was used against a woman suspect (not mentioned in the text), Beloit (pop. 38,000) taser instructor describes all the good news about tasers, and how his police force follows taser instruction. “only concern about the Tasers is that […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “Columbia (pop. 650,000) police are testing the new Taser AXON that will record audio and video from a headset worn by officers and could be an upgrade from their current lapel recorders.” The police chief and officer seem enthusiastic. TASER Inc. will kepp a copy of all filmed material. It is there […]
News-Herald, by JAYNE HANSON Lake Havasu City Police Department is the first law enforcement agency in Arizona to implement on-officer video technology, department officials said. Joe Fiumara, Lake Havasu City police captain, logs into an AXON Tactical Computer that is docked with eight other ATC units during a demonstration Dec. 22 at Lake Havasu City […]
(Portuguese to English translation via Google translator and some revision. Apologies for the English.) The Portuguese text appear below the translation. gazetamaringa.com., by Marcus Ayres The Maringá Urban Office (GGI-M) has unanimously approved the use of non-lethal weapons by the Municipal Guard. Late on Monday (13) the use of nonlethal weapons by the Municipal Guard […]
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, available on line 3 December 201 Anthony J. O’Brien, Corresponding author, + Brian G McKennab, Katey Thomb, Kate Diesfeldc and Alexander I.F. Simpson Abstract Background In 2006–2007 New Zealand police deployed the Taser X26 electro-muscular incapacitation device for a twelve month trial across four police districts. Criteria for use […]
THE state opposition will push to arm all front-line Victorian police with Tasers if its wins tomorrow’s election, while indicating that the current trial of the weapons will not change its stance. Opposition police spokesman Peter Ryan said he wanted all general duty police carrying them within the Coalition’s first term in government to reduce […]
WIKIPEDIA (in German) – see original below German to English translation (note, via google-translation) In Hamburg, the CDU Senate under Mayor Ole von Beust and Interior Minister Udo Nagel in June 2005 passed a new Police Act, which provides, inter alia, the introduction of Taser guns. According the amendment of the Bavarian Police Act on […]
Daily Record co.uk … A HUMAN rights group today called for a “thorough evaluation” of the use of Taser stun guns by police forces. Amnesty International has already branded a six-month pilot scheme in the Strathclyde force area as “unlawful” – a position rejected by the First Minister and police. Now, one day after the […]
by Ajai Shukla, Business Standard… Agitating protestors are in for a shock Police forces from several states, including J&K, are evaluating the non-lethal Taser to help quell civil unrest. It may prove a major step towards ending the use of lethal force against protestors by the police. Or it could be, in the worlds of […]
The falling number of assaults on police has undermined the case for equipping ordinary officers with Tasers,Amnesty International has claimed: a 17% reduction in attacks is evidence that a Strathclyde Police pilot on Tasers is flawed. However, Les Gray, chairman of the Scottish Police Federation, described Amnesty’s arguments as “outrageous”.
We have about eight pilots currently on going. So for example, the country of New Zealand is a paying customer where they’ve done a national implementation of EVIDENCE.COM for handling all their TASER films and the TASER data. They’re not yet piloting the AXON.
The Bermuda Police Service (BPS) is announcing the introduction of TASER as a less-lethal use of force option in the list of approved defensive weapons being carried by police officers. with supporting justification indirectly uoting Taser International.
Strathclyde: Amnesty urges police re-think taser pilot Posted: 11 April 2010 Amnesty International has today expressed concern that Strathclyde Police Authority is going ahead with its six-month pilot scheme to arm ordinary, non-firearm trained police officers with Taser electro-shock weapons. The organisation has urged the police authority to reconsider its plans which will tomorrow see […]
Nearly 700 Taser stun guns will be available to 3500 front line police throughout the country by August.