More Coverage of UK Police TASER Deployment
- More officers trained for taser use - Guardian, UK -
Sep 7, 2007 - YEAR’S TRIAL SEES POLICE IN STUN GUN TRAINING - Somerset
- Tasers Worry Brits - Wired News -
Sep 4, 2007
Former chief superintendent of West Midlands Police Barry Mason said giving officers “quick training in Taser techniques and using the Taser gun was a knee-jerk reaction”. “We need more officers on the streets who are armed with the proper conventional firearm - not every officer, but more officers, armed properly,” he said.
“In the UK for export purposes tasers are still legally considered to be torture technologies. “
