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The Unified Police Union (SUP) has demanded this Thursday provide national police with electric guns as weapons that can better protect agents and citizens in certain interventions in which the use of fire is disproportionate, being a lot Less harmful

This has been requested by representatives of the SUP in a press conference in which they have called on the General Directorate of the Police to incorporate electric guns to the equipment of the agents "as an intermediate means of defense" and have recalled that they already have these tools The Mossos d'Esquadra, Ertzaintza and more than 200 local police officers.

The complaint has been presented by the National Secretaries of Trade Union Action and Occupational Hazards of the SUP, Francisco Javier Herrero and Carlos Prieto , respectively, as well as by the member of this union in the Police Council, Roberto González .

They have explained that these electric guns have legal protection in the Weapons Regulations and would mean increasing the range of elements that a national police force has to deal with a violent episode in accordance with the basic principles of action of proportionality, opportunity and congruence.

The representatives of the SUP and of the company Axon, a seller in Spain of the electric guns of the Taser brand, have explained that they are devices of minimum lesivity that generate an immediate incapacitation when immobilizing a violent person by means of electrical impulses that interfere in the functioning of its motor abilities, mainly arms and legs.

They have clarified that despite what they think by mistake they do not electrocute but cause immobilization for a maximum of five seconds per shot so that the person who has received it then regains full control of their muscles without cardiac risks for those who receive the shot even if it has a pacemaker.

They have stressed that their employment is widespread in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and most of Europe , where Italy has been the last country to join the list of those who use them with the acquisition of 3,600 units.

In the opinion of the SUP, the use of these electric guns gives the police self-confidence by intervening more safely knowing that they have a non-damaging disabling element and also have a deterrent character since "the most violent aggressors know the reticence to use the weapon of fire but they would not have that certainty in the case of an electric gun. "

The director of Axon in Spain, Javier Ramírez , has indicated that according to the data collected by his company from different studies with the Taser gun, the number of injured suspects is reduced by 40% and injured police officers by 70%.

He added that in Spain some five hundred Tasers are in operation between Mossos d'Esquadra, Ertzaintza, local police and special operations bodies of state security, in Europe about 50,000 and around one million in the world and stressed that there is no any sentence that indicates that this weapon has been the factor for the death of some person.

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