Police are trained to manually insert Taser probes if firing them into a target fails, national headquarters says. ... Taser implementation team member Senior Sergeant Paddy Hannon said a "stun drive" or "contact stun" involved an officer taking one of the unconnected probes and pressing it on to the skin of the target.[LINK]
Really? Just pick up a dart from the floor, then wander over to the subject, and poke the taser dart into him. That's an interesting approach...
Gee, I wonder if perhaps there's been a miscommunication somewhere along the way?
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Greg Meyer is a generally pro-taser use-of-force expert who testified in the Mehserle trial- somewhere I read he was paid $375 an hour for his work on the case and $3,000 a day for each court appearance, for an estimated $30,000.
PoliceOne e-zine is subsidized by T.I. Pre-Braidwood, Meyer wrote this column about what I call the "third technique", a method that combines a probe shot and a touch stun to produce the same effect as a probe shot. I have wondered if this would explain why people are getting hurt by touch stuns, which would ordinarily seem to be less paralysing than probes. This is what Meyer advocated, an New Zealand seems to be teaching this, but the reporter was confused.
August 10, 2007 -
Taser tactics and training injuries
by PoliceOne.com Columnist Greg Meyer
http://www.correctionsone.com/products/less-lethal/taser/articles/1335568/
Sponsored by TASER
3-point contact
"When you’re in tight with your suspect, the pushes and shoves start, and you don’t break contact, consider using the “3-point contact.” Leave the cartridge in your Taser and fire it at contact range just like a drive-stun. Then, with one or both darts deployed on the person, move the TASER device away from the darts and drive-stun the person on another part of the body. A few inches would work, but a couple of feet between the darts and the drive-stun would be more effective.
If you tilt the business end of the Taser so that just one of the electrodes is against the body, you’ll achieve a better circuit and full neuromuscular incapacitation just as you would with a wide dart spread! If you have not yet been trained on this tactic, check with your Taser instructor. This tactic is being taught by master instructors, and it is very effective."
The report I quoted spoke of "manually inserting" the tasrr probe (or dart). It's insanity. Complete insanity.
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