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As of June 31, 2011, TASER International has sold approximately 559,000 TASER® brand electronic control devices (ECDs) worldwide to more than 16,300 law enforcement and military agencies. More than 6,800 agencies deploy TASER ECDs specifically to all members of their patrol officers. TASER devices are sold to in more than 107 countries.

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Australia

Police need a tool that works in a split second
It is difficult to quantify how many lives have been saved because New South Wales Police have been issued with Tasers. Equally, it is difficult to calculate how many police officers have avoided serious injury because they used Tasers during high-risk violent confrontations. However, the fact is we have had a 24 per cent drop in the number of police assaulted in the past year. That is 181 fewer officers being punched, kicked or bitten while trying to serve the community. It is 181 more cops going home to their families in one piece, and coming back to work the next day rather than being off work nursing injuries.
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Stun guns in police cars despite concerns
Sydney Australia: Tasers have been used a total of 440 times since they were introduced for general duties police. In 256 of these instances, or 54 per cent, they were not fired.
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Tasers: the police weapon of choice
"The question of the use of tasers is now well and truly settled." So says the Police Minister Michael Daley. A year after the New South Wales Government introduced tasers to general duties police, the Government has come out armed with figures.
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Cops use Tasers every day on streets
By far the largest deployment, for New South Wales police (at 54 per cent), was for "draw and cover". This is when police officers unholster the weapon and explain what it is, but are not then called upon to use it in order to overpower a violent or threatening person.
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Canada

Police union head defends Taser use
In this article, the head of the union representing Winnipeg police said TASER devices can save the lives of suspects police are arresting. "I don't think you need to be a scientist or a medical doctor to realize a Taser is much less lethal than a bullet," he said. "There's no 100 per cent safe guaranteed way to take somebody into custody, especially someone who's exhibiting significantly dangerous and violent behaviours."
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France

Brice Hortefeux détaille au Sénat la fréquence d'utilisation des Taser et Flash-Ball
This article highlights French use of less than lethal weapons in the field. According to the interior minister, Brice Hortefeux , the figures showed that French less lethal weapons were used 12,000 times since 2006 with only 22 serious accidents reported, a ratio of 0.20%."
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New Zealand

Tasers get kudos for making our police safer
The recently released New Zealand Police Annual report for 2009/2010 showed the number of assaults on police began falling for the first time in four years. Police Association president Greg O’Connor said that while numbers were anecdotal, Hawke’s Bay had still seen a number of serious assaults against officers this year. “The introduction of the TASER has been the big one, not only for keeping police safer but keeping the public safer. It’s much safer than trying to manhandle people. That’s the most dangerous time for police.” This year in Hawke’s Bay, assaults against police had decreased, despite several well-publicised attacks.
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Region's police force train to use Tasers
Tasman district TASER ECD project manager Detective Inspector John Winter said the TASER devices would give police another option to use in situations where violence was likely. "No-one ever wants to use lethal force so this is just about giving police a range of options from open-hand tactics right through to lethal force." Senior Constable Bryn Olsen said nine of 10 times simply the presentation of the TASER was enough to deter the offender.
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TASERs a welcome option
TASER ECDs have been used in Auckland, Waitemata, Counties Manukau and Wellington police districts for just over a year. In that time, 10 people have been exposed to a TASER ECD. According to the article, “It's pretty clear that in several instances, the person could have been shot with a firearm if TASER hadn't been available.” Out of 132 instances where the TASER ECD was drawn, 92 percent were successfully resolved without the TASER being discharged.
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United Kingdom

Taser contract criticised by Home Affairs Committee MPs
Despite controversy about TASER distribution, this article outlines United Kingdom results with TASER ECDs that indicate the Home Affair’s Committee has found very positive utilization results. Specifically, the committee says Tasers have been deployed more than 6,000 times since 2004, although it was not fired in almost 70% of cases.
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Taser used on boy, 13, as Met fight gang threat
UK officers are using TASER Electronic Control Devices to fight crime in high "gang activity" areas. A Metropolitan Police Authority report shows that police drew their TASER devices 307 times in London last year, firing them only 96 times. The Met study says that on most occasions officers do not need to fire the devices. Often simply the threat of using the weapon - by aiming or "arcing" it or placing a laser red dot on the victim - is enough to resolve a stand-off.
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The use of Tasers by specially-trained units slowed in the last quarter, according to new figures published today.
Every police force in the country was this year given the right to issue Tasers to non-firearms officers with specialist training. The move followed a successful 12-month trial in ten forces across the country.
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'Tasers deter crime and attempts to resist arrest'
Just the sight of a TASER ECD can diffuse dangerous and violent situations, say British police who have used them for years. Chief Inspector Kevin Wellens, of Merseyside Police, told the Bermuda Sun the stun guns are a very effective way of reducing extreme anti-social behaviour. His comments came after Commissioner Michael DeSilva announced plans for one in three of his -officers to be armed with TASER ECDs. Ch. Inps. Wellens said: “Once people recognize a Taser they do not enter into conflict with officers.”
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Police report rise in Taser use
Policing and Crime Minister David Hanson said Tasers are a "vital Tool". “Often just drawing the device can be enough to deter criminals” David Hanson Policing and Crime Minister. Police units have now used Tasers 1,669 times since the trial began in September 2007 and discharged them 293 times. Mr Hanson said they "help protect both officers and the public". He went on: "They do not even have to be discharged to help defuse violent or dangerous situations, often just drawing the device can be enough to deter criminals."
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Cumbria police doubling number of stun gun officers
The article states that Police say Tasers have been effective in stopping violence and have been useful in emergencies involving guns. Authorization had been given for the use of TASER devices 436 times in 18 months up to the end of March, they had been fired on only 11 occasions.
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The Physics of Not Killing People
For most of their history, police forces in Great Britain have had two technological levels of force to call upon when dealing with violent criminals – a truncheon or a hand gun. This gave them very few options and has led to many deaths and serious injuries, both to the police officers themselves and the violent suspects they were trying to apprehend. With the arrival of the (less-lethal weapons) in 1996 this began to change.
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