Written ministerial statement on the police use of taser
Taser has been available to all Authorised Firearms Officers since September 2004 as a less lethal alternative for use in situations where a firearms authority has been granted.
This written ministerial statement was laid before parliament by Home Office Minister Tony McNulty on 19 July 2007. It approves the deployment of Taser for use by Authorised Firearms Officers in operations or incidents where the criteria for the authorisation to issue firearms does not apply, but where officers are facing violence or threats of violence of such severity that they would need to use force to protect the public, themselves and/or the subject(s) of their action.
It also outlines a 12 month trial of the deployment of Taser by specially trained units who are not firearms officers in similarly violent circumstances requiring conflict management.
Date: Thu Jul 19 10:30:27 BST 2007
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