Police Wrap - 5 November

Given that no-one commenting on this particular thread to date claims to have actually witnessed the incident, why the f@*K do you all ARSSUME that the tasered individual deserved the treatment they got? Just remember that the AFP is not, by nature, precluded from employing over-zealous dickheads.

They are more effective than pepper spray, for which the use involves causing significant pain to the recipient, so they become compliant. But the pain lasts for hours after use.
Sure, the intention in taser use is not to cause pain, but to end the confrontation by functionally overriding the body’s nervous and motor function.
This brings with it a residual risk of disruption to heart and neurological function.
However for most people, receiving a jolt from a taser has been claimed to cause an amount of pain that has been described by both Amnesty and the UN as near if not at “torture levels”.
But at least the pain stops when the electricity shuts off, and there is minimal proof of contact afterwards, which is nice for if someone was to be ‘less than ethical’.
They are not non-lethal.

They’re not a crowd control device, except as an implied threat to any non-compliant individual.
Their use is meant to be a “public\personal safety is an impending and otherwise unavoidable risk, so I will instantly incapacitate him\her using _less-lethal_ means than a bullet” device, but in on-the-ground use they seem to be a first-choice instead of last alternative to resolving a situation.

So how does the public go about hearing more about why and how it was used, and if the recipient develops heart rhythm problems, who does he take his issue up with?

“‘Given the circumstances, it probably stopped the incident from escalating further than it did,” Sergeant Cooke said.”

As much as I dislike violent drunken nob-ends, tasers are not supposed to be used as compliance devices. I always find it really worrying that the tendency is to crack out the taser whenever posed with a challenge.

Your point?
In general, other people’s comments may or may not be related to yours, but in this case probably not considering this is a thread on the _police_ releases, and you’re trying to sing the praises of CSS…

Why should I care what CSS get up to?

That was a police call not the private security firm involved

But no mention of using a taser on the man resisting arrest?

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/taser-used-to-subdue-cup-day-racing-patron/1352167.aspx

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