Despite the Independent Police Conduct Authority ["Authority"? LOL] thinking it should be standard practice, incidents of police firing the Taser device will no longer be routinely reviewed. Police Minister Judith Collins actually said, "We're not going to have investigations every time a Taser is used. Blah blah blah. We get police officers shot, beaten up, eaten by lions. Blah blah blah. I don't want these Tasers to be such a problem for police that they don't use them because they're worried they're going to get hauled through a huge IPCA investigation. Blah blah blah..."
[LINK]Ms. Collins is something of an expert [LOL] on the subject: "...If the alternative is the gunshot, I would say even a 50,000-volt electric shock from a Taser is a better result than a gunshot."
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