Shoot the boss!
Discussion
Just have a look at this piece http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4650645.stm about the Chief Constable of GMP volunteering to be tazed as part of his campaign to have tazers issued to rank & file officers.
I'd be interested to hear what our BiBs have to say about being issued with such 'less lethal' weapons. Is it a good thing or could we get instances of them being used (as with that US clip that was doing the rounds) on people who are merely non-compliant rather than an out & out threat? Or should they be used but restricted to firearms officers and used as a less lethal option before opening fire?
But anyway, that's not why I posted - rather have a look at the top pic...
Is it just me or does that guy with the tazer have a helluva grin on his face from getting the opportunity to shove 50,000 volts into his boss? :)
Well you would wouldn't you!
I'd be interested to hear what our BiBs have to say about being issued with such 'less lethal' weapons. Is it a good thing or could we get instances of them being used (as with that US clip that was doing the rounds) on people who are merely non-compliant rather than an out & out threat? Or should they be used but restricted to firearms officers and used as a less lethal option before opening fire?
But anyway, that's not why I posted - rather have a look at the top pic...
Is it just me or does that guy with the tazer have a helluva grin on his face from getting the opportunity to shove 50,000 volts into his boss? :)
Well you would wouldn't you!
parrot of doom said:
50,000 volts sounds impressive, but as any decent electrician knows, its not the potential that kills, its the current.....
Absolutely. It's the voilts that jolts but the mills that kills and all that. I still wouldn't bloody well volunteer though!
POD said:
Personally I think a Tazer is a bit less damaging than an asp to the body.
In some ways yes, although when a tazing goes wrong, the outcome is far worse than a couple of extra bruises or a bloodied nose.
I actually support the use of such things - as an option that falls short of full-on shoot-to-stop in the same way that US cops sometimes use bean-bag rounds from a shotgun to subdue someone without going all John Wayne.
Personally though, I wouldn't want to see non-specialist units issued with them - I think their use would become too indiscriminate when viewed with the potential for longer term nerve damage etc. And if I was a BiB faced with a chav pisshead giving it loads of aggro on a saturday night - and I had a tazer - I'd be tempted to use it.. it has to be said.
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