Amnesty: tasers are 'dangerous'
3:56pm Saturday 8th December 2007
Comments (2)AN INTERNATIONAL human rights charity has slammed the Home Office for its decision to introduce tasers in London.
Oliver Sprague, programme director for Amnesty International, described the weapons as dangerous yesterday, Friday, December 7, and sited the case of a Polish man killed by one in Vancouver Airport, in Canada.
He said: "Recent cases have proven just how dangerous these weapons can be. There's a real climate of caution at the moment around the use of Tasers in other countries.
"It's simply the wrong time for British police forces to be extending their use of Tasers."
Stun guns will be introduced across the capital on Monday, December 10.
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James Bevan, Harrow says...
11:54pm Mon 10 Dec 07
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Andrew K, - says...
3:13pm Sun 9 Dec 07
Don't bloody resist arrest, then they won't have to be used!
Sorry, but I have no sympathy for law breakers.