Police deploy new weapon as incidents become ‘more violent and unpredictable’: ‘Taser is safe and effective’ | Inland

Amsterdam – Agents within the base teams have a new weapon: the taser. According to the police, it is the necessary middle ground between pepper spray and the baton on the one hand and firearms on the other. The introduction is part of a new strategy in which the police want to use more suitable and less violent weapons. But the introduction of the taser is not without controversy.