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Call to limit use of Taser guns
PA
Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008
Ministers were urged to limit the use of Taser guns after new
figures emerged showing Taser-linked deaths.
Amnesty International said 334 people have died in the US since
2001 after being shot by the weapons, which deliver a 50,000-volt
shock.
A spokesman for the campaign group said the weapons were "open
to abuse" and they should only be used when the lives of
police or members of the public were at risk.
The Government announced last month it would issue 10,000 weapons
and routinely give them to non-firearms officers.
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But Amnesty's arms programme director Oliver Sprague said the
weapons were "potentially lethal".
"They can inflict severe pain at the push of a button, without
leaving substantial marks," he said.
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