The RCMP and their watchdog, CPC, appear to share the opinion that one part of the solution to the problem of tasers (and their apparently inherent tendancy to be overused, misused and abused) is to deploy more video cameras. Conveniently {ROLLS EYES}, such officer-carried systems are now being marketed by a certain well-known maker of stunguns, Taser International. This amount of irony should be illegal.
The immediately-previous post highlighted the possible procurement issue with purchasing a weapon where it cannot even be agreed if it is potentially (inherently) lethal or not. This is the first area where additional PWGSC oversight might save Canadian taxpayers millions of dollars in indirect costs.
The next issue is the obviously-contemplated procurement, almost certainly from Taser International, of officer-carried video cameras.
Reportedly, the cost structure includes an ongoing service fee of a reported US$100 per officer per month. [UPDATE: Another report has it at US$160 per month per officer.]
No doubt there will be other expenses related to their well known QA issues (high failure rate of tasers, little if any preplanned ILS) and apparent lack of any externally-certified quality systems or standards (ISO9000, CMMI), probable lack of industry standard software standards, probable lack of requirement traceability, etc.
It seems clear that PWGSC should impose additional oversight on any further procurements from Taser International.
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