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Originally Posted by blastawaycas
And its gonna get worse....as you will no doubt be aware uk police generally do not carry weapons however (apart from armed response units) in the Cleveland Constabulary which is a reletively small constabulary with Middlesbrough Stockton Hartlepool Billingham Redcar Guisborough areas to cover but that is small compared to Northumberland Yorkshire Durham (sorry to go on just trying to draw a picture for international readers)
Cleveland is issuing all officers with tazers by the years end with a view to increasing armed response and the general feeling amongst other officers is that all officers will be going for weapons training and armed n the future.  |
blastawaycas
I think your on to something> 
from antaleangles post
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9865
I think our good friend rauldude sums it all up with this quote
"I'm really questioning the need to taser at that point in the first place. It looks like the victim was already handcuffed when he was shot, not to mention they had him outnumbered like 3 or 4 to 1."