[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : TASER International has abandoned the ‘shot-gun taser’ – X12 shotguns or their electronic XREP ammunition – due to poor sales (blaming “slashed law enforcement budgets”) and so the British Home Office has scrapped tests of controversial shotgun for supply to UK police forces. The shotguns and their battery-powered missiles were used […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : New “toys” to help police controls “riots” (read: demononstrations) include heat rays, sonic disruptors, mass TASERs, malodorants, and other new technologies. Dee the section on the Taser XREP (in bold): TASER’s Shockwave is an area denial device that was inspired by anti-personnel mines. The Shockwave ADS consists of three tiers of […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: Bringing Afghanistan to your neighborhood police-force …. Drones for policing or border patrols? Why not? The ShadowHawk is a 50lb mini drone chopper that can be fitted with an XREP taser with the ability to fire four barbed electrodes that can be shot to a distance of 100 feet, delivering “neuromuscular incapacitation” to […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: UAV (“Unmanned Aerial Vehicle” or drone) used against insurgents in Afghanistan can incapacitate suspects from above – it was demonstrated by a police unit – the Montgomery County Sheriff’s office – and will be operational within a month. This shows the ties between military/policing in the USA. The ShadowHawk on show in is […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The 10 jury members of the highly dramatized inquest into the death of Raoul Moat – see other stories – finally says the taser X-Rep, (issued illegally to the police …) did not kill him and no police officers are charged with misconduct”. “Moat was struck by one of the […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS : In the follow-up to tasering of Raoul Moat (see SEARCH box). Amnesty International says police use of Xrep Taser ‘alarming’, after tests branded it inaccurate and unreliable. Police pointed the experimental Taser at Raoul Moat during the standoff in July last year. It was fired twice, with ‘no effect whatsoever’. Research conducted […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: Does the new taser XREP simply cause a “start;e response”? Somewhat incongruously, the Inquest into Raoul Moat’s death is told that Moat the taser round that hit Raoul Moat before he fired his shotgun, ending the six-hour siege on Rothbury Riverside last year, would only cause him to shoot himself if he was […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : In a lonmg-standing story (see “Moat” in the search box … Taser not to blame for Moat’s death, Dr Ian Schofield, a consultant neurophysiologist with expertise in how electric currents affect the nervous system, told the inquest. Schofield said the (unauthorised) Taser weapon fired by police at cornered killer Raoul […]
[[SUMMARY /COMMENTS: The Raoul Moat inquest was told by lawyers representing his family that firing Taser stun-guns at him was “like a red rag to a bull” when there was still a chance of his surrender, claiming that the use of unlicensed X-rep rounds sparked, rather than prevented, the desperate fugitive’s suicide. A police officer […]
[[ Summary / Comments Bodybuilder dies after police blast him three times with a Taser gun]] By Paul Sims Competitor: Bodybuilder Dale Burns is believed to be the first person to die from a police Taser A bodybuilder is believed to be the first person in Britain to have died from a police Taser […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A brief article on the .Shadowhawk. – in mini-heliopter with clear potential police applications: .A version of the aircraft, designed for military use, can be instructed to emit TASER prongs, fire shotgun shells, or shoot grenades. ShadowHawk can be equipped with TASER XREP.»]] By PoliceOne Staff The remote-controlled tool is currently tracking […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The linkup between TASER Inc.and “MAUL” : “Metal Storm, the Australian weapons firm famous for its “million rounds a minute” superimposed-projectile technology, has partnered with Taser International to produce an electroshock stun version of its rapid-firing multishot grenade-launcher design, based on XREP technology” Science, 25th July 2011 11:47 GMT Metal Storm, the […]
[[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: Looking like “something out of a James Bond movie.”, a local Florida police unit shows of its wireless XREP (Extended Range Electronic Projectile) fired from a 12-guage shot-gun 100 metres away from the victim and more painful, it seems than the X26 $100 cartridges. “John Angleton is the taser coordinator for the […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “Polk County Sheriff’s Office is one of only about two dozen law enforcement agencies in Florida using the powerful new TASER Extended Range Electronic Projectile (XREP): a wireless taser for firing from 100 metres.” The example of “saving lives” may look convincing, but there was no question of negotiating with the suspect: […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: An ecumenical coalition opposes new Taser purchases – for the XREP cordless taser: “The Albina Ministerial Alliance for Justice and Police Reform this week sent a letter to Portland’s mayor and chief of police, urging the police bureau to delay its plans to buy more powerful, shoulder-fired Tasers in light of recent […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “Aerial Intelligence and Response” – i.e. drones and remote-controled helicopters — will, we read in PoliceOne, a major inline police magazine, “give … police agencies a new edge in their fight against crime”. One of the options: “The ShadowHawk is equipped with both a digital daytime camera and a FLIR system and […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: interesting comments from the Weider History Group (“the Weider History Group features a network of sites designed to educate and entertain readers across a broad range of historical interests”) containing detailed technical information about the taser XREP cartridge (56 plastic parts molded together) from the technical magazine Plastics Today (see http://www.globalshock.org/?p=4815) . […]
[[GlobalShock: an article from the technical review “Plastics Today” (focusing in plastics moldings) on ICON’s supply of plastics to TASER Inc. for the new XREP cartridges: “It packs twice as much power and has four times the range of standard Taser guns,” says ICON President. “The XREP projectile generates NMI for 20 continuous seconds, according […]
[[GlobalShock: The British House of Commons committee is highly critical of the procedure by which the rejection of the original provider of tasers ( Pro-Tect Systems Ltd) due to distribution of X12 Tasers and XREP ammunition before these had been approved by the Home Office, simply changed its name (to Tactical Safety Responses Ltd) to become a “new company” – […]