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by Jan Salden. Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | 02:49 | Last updated: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 | 08:12
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Agents pursue an arrest. Soon, they can also use a Taser. Photo Reuters

Agents pursue an arrest. Soon, they can also use a Taser. Photo Reuters

The arrest teams of police from May 1 to the decision on the Taser. This transient suspected weapon could be turned off. But this team has an arrest arms, do they need?
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A police officer conducts a Jeep to the side of the road in the U.S. state of Utah. The driver has to be driven hard. The agent makes minutes and asks the man behind the wheel to the receipt to sign. If he refuses, call the agent that he should come out of the car. The man get off, is in discussion with the agent and makes right turns.

'Turn around! ", Call the agent twice without success, and his Taser at the driver dir and two electrodes to 50,000 volts out afvuurt. The man collapsed to the ground. The digital video YouTube is bursting with this kind of movies that use of the electric Taser gun to be seen. They are bad pictures, the suspect stiff as a board over and uitschreeuwt of the pain. In the United States, the Taser more than fifteen years. From May 1 to the Dutch police and the military decision on the transient weapon. Members arrest of seven teams (at's) go for a year as a test of the arms work. This is a long cherished desire of the police in performance. Already in early 2006 by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for permission for a test. They voted in August last year.

Is it so often missing in action from arrest teams that a Taser is needed? No, says police and arms expert sociologist Jaap Timmer of the Free University. Suspects are frequently surprised if an arrest team in a storm that they can be directly unmastered. Likely there is resistance, it is often a physical way "solved, says Timmer. "At'ers are only doing one thing: ensuring that the suspect does not get the chance to resist. If necessary by a beech to share." According to Timmer, the number of arrests by at in a few years doubled the number of victims that it was more than halved. In the two arrests by at last year's, was indeed "several hundred" firearms drawn to the suspect under control, but no shot landed. Apparently, the arrest teams without the Taser fine feet.

Is that a weapon or need? Yes, say the Council of Chief Commissioners and the Ministry. In their eyes the Taser fills a gap in the armor. This now consists of the firearm, the police and the beanbag, a weapon that a 'bag' with afvuurt spheres. The disadvantage of the beanbag is that only for larger distances can be used, while a dog in small spaces is not always useful. Pepper spray is not an option because that suspects that stiff of the drugs or the adrenaline is not enough. Remains on the firearm. "It is immediately very definitive," said a spokesman for the Council.

Amnesty International fears that the Taser will have a counterproductive effect. "The threshold to use is much lower than with a firearm," says Ruud Bosgraaf. "Where arrest teams may now verbal or physical threat of a situation to resolve it soon as possible to grab the Taser." Timmer indicates that assumption of the hand. "At'ers will always find the least serious way." According to him 'credit' the police that if they want to minimize casualties. "If two or three at'ers top of your jump, you really at the dentist. While Taser that no permanent damage. Everyone would choose the latter."

Sorry it seems only to be 11 Tasers:

Doubt on the usefulness' Taser '

Published: March 24, 2009 07:40, last updated: March 24, 2009 07:51

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THE HAGUE - The Dutch Federal Police (NPB), human rights organizations and parties in the Lower House have serious reservations about the introduction of the 'transient Taser'-arms from May 1

The arrest teams of police and gendarmerie, from May 1 for a year trial run with the Taser. This week they will be trained in dealing with the weapon, which the Ministry of Interior has ordered eleven in the U.S. Taser manufacturer for 1100 euros each.

The Dutch Federal Police doubt strongly the need for the electric gun, two conductive wires arrows to afvuurt, thus crippling a transient of 50,000 volts is sent. The Taser may be used against fleeing suspects, and people who threaten to use a weapon and other life-threatening situations. The NPB is that too close to the instructions on the firearm are. There are also police dogs and bean bags, non-lethal ball bags. Members of the arrest teams have no need for the Taser, the NPB.

PvdA MP Attje Kuiken found that the Ministry should do more research on the Taser. , Is the number of shooting incidents where the Taser is used be reduced?''SP MP Ronald van Raak would explain the necessity of the Taser by Minister Guusje ter Horst.

Human rights organizations Amnesty International and Defense for Children opposed the deployment of the weapon against fleeing suspects and against children twelve years and older.

The full article can be read in English Newspaper of Tuesday, 24 March 20

"Human rights organizations Amnesty International and Defense for Children opposed the deployment of the weapon against fleeing suspects and against children twelve years and older."

Same old A.I. attempting to mislead and confuse the public any time and anywhere they can get away with it - -- "children twelve years and older"???

They aren't "children" when they are twelve years or older and some of those MINORS carry weapons - guns in the U.S., who knows what in the Netherlands.

It's all part of the Amnesty Int. disinformation campaign to confuse the words "children", "youth", and "teens" with minors (under 18) in the public mind when it comes to being shocked with a Taser.

What they are deliberately trying to hide from the public (lying about - their standard modus operandi), are the following facts about what the police and public are up against.

U.S. Dept. of Justice, FBI, Criminal Justice Information Services Div.
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs
"Violent Encounters: A Study of Felonious Assaults on Our Nation's Law Enforcement Officers" August 2006
available at: http://www.calgunlaws.com/index.php/arti...
Minors and firearms...

"All three studies (this and two others) report that the offenders regularly carried handguns at a relatively early age. The offenders who were interviewed for the Killed in the Line of Duty study began carrying a handgun at the AVERAGE [my emphasis] age of 18. Those who were interviewed for the In the Line of Fire study began carrying a handgun at the AVERAGE age of 17. The offenders who participated in the current study began to regularly carry weapons at the AVERAGE age of 17. Sixteen of the 43 offenders in the current study began carrying handguns at age 15 or younger, with the age breakdown as follows: 9 years old (1 offender), 10 years old (2 offenders), 12 years old (1 offender), 13 years old (5 offenders), 14 years old (3 offenders), 15 years old (4 offenders). Eleven of these 16 offenders were self-admit-ted gang members.
Thirty-seven of the 43 offenders in the current study regularly carried a weapon, that is, most or the majority of the time. Of those, 35 regularly carried a handgun, 1 a knife, and 1 a rifle (in a motor vehicle)."
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