The Taser is designed to deliver a 50,000 volt-shock Thames Valley Police officers prefer using CS spray to the Taser gun in violent incidents, it emerged today (Friday). Police are to debate whether ...

Stun guns - capable of rendering targets immobile - have hit the streets of South Wales. Gwent Police has now armed firearm officers with the electro-shock Tasers and South Wales Police yesterday ...

A POLICE force testing a controversial high-voltage stunning weapon intends to carry on using the device after the trial reaches the end of its first year this weekend. A POLICE force testing a ...

POLICE in South Yorkshire have discharged their electronic Taser stun guns on 13 occasions since they were introduced five years ago, figures have revealed. Did you know with a Digital subscription to ...

A BAT-WIELDING thug and a man waving a knife were seemingly brought under control by an armed officer carrying a 50,000 volt Taser gun yesterday. The two incidents were staged by police as examples of ...

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Armed police officers in Staffordshire can use Taser guns to stun suspects with a 50,000-volt electric shock. Only authorised firearms officers can operate the devices to subdue people, who are ...

Police have defended the use of Taser stun guns after new figures revealed they had been used at a rate of 30 times a day across the country last year. Did you know with a Digital subscription to ...

A WOMAN brandishing two knives in a residential street was stunned with a taser following a three-hour stand-off with police. Armed police were called to Bowness Road, Padiham, to reports of a 20-year ...

The shock can cause muscles to seize up and induce temporary memory loss.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it will curb the use of stun guns after a critical report concluded they were using them too often. The review was prompted by the case of a Polish immigrant who ...