Polícias para ser permitidas o uso mais largo de Tasers

Reuters

Os oficiais de polícias usam Taser stun injetores em membros do público em uma escala mais larga das circunstâncias de sexta-feira, o escritório Home dito.

Atualmente os injetores, que incapacitam temporariamente um suspeito, uma lata somente pelo usado pelos 6.500 oficiais treinados dos firearms em Inglaterra e um Wales quando confrontados por uma pessoa armada.

Under the new rules, firearms specialists will be able to use the 50,000 volt devices when officers are facing violence or threats of violence “of such severity that they would need to use force to protect the public or themselves”.

Additionally it was announced that specially-trained police units who are not firearms officers would also be deployed with Tasers. The year-long trial involving 10 forces will start in September.

“Police officers put themselves in harm’s way every day and I want them to have the equipment they need to protect themselves and the public,” said Tony McNulty, the Home Office minister for policing.

“Taser gives police an additional tactical option that is less lethal than conventional firearms and its use can help resolve incidents and limit the incidence of serious injury.”

Critics of Tasers say the devices have been linked to dozens of deaths in America and Canada.

Last October Amnesty International voiced concern after the death of Brian Loan, 47, from County Durham, who died a few days after a Taser was used on him. However a Home Office post-mortem concluded he had died of natural causes.

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