The police will begin next week an experiment with the taser. The stroomstootwapen is deployed in Rotterdam, Zwolle and Amersfoort. In the coming weeks, more than 300 agents a training. After a two-day course and a final examination, they may use the weapon on the street.
The police have a number of teams that the stroomstootwapen test. In Zwolle and Amersfoort are the teams of agents that just policing. They take the taser, for example, to bring on uitgaansavonden.
In Rotterdam get dog handlers the weapon. They work throughout the region and look for more suspects. Later this year, will also get a aanhoudingseenheid the decision about tasers.
According to the police, when agents need a weapon that is more powerful than pepper spray or the wapenstok, but less intense than the gun or the police dog. “The taser is an excellent way to close this loophole,” Willem Woelders of the police unit Midden-Nederland.
According to him, the taser use have confused people who are aggressive, or suspects that, as much alcohol or drugs have used that they wapenstok not feel, and pepper spray has no effect.
Woelders: “Now, you must be there with a number of colleagues in addition to diving to get the situation under control. Soon you would be able to taseren and it is not necessary to make heavier use of force.” He hopes in particular that agents less often, their gun need to use.
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