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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - With around 60 devices, the test of so-called tasers in the police patrol duty is to begin in NRW.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, the distance electro-pulse devices are to be used alternately by around 400 officials.
The police authorities in Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Dortmund and the police in the Rhein-Erft district were selected for the pilot project.
With the Axon “Taser 7” ordered by NRW, you can aim at the person opposite with a green laser.
The Taser shoots metal arrows on wires, which can be used to put the shot at with short current pulses at very high voltage.
The three-day training courses for the devices have largely been completed, according to the ministry.
The project will run until March 2022.
Then it should be checked whether the distance electro pulse devices are used across the board in North Rhine-Westphalia - or further only by special task forces (SEK).
According to an earlier report to the Landtag, the Ministry of the Interior is rather skeptical of Tasers.
The devices cannot be used in many situations.
The police union (GdP) in North Rhine-Westphalia, on the other hand, had campaigned for Taser and pointed to successes in the operation in Rhineland-Palatinate.
The country was the first federal state to introduce the Taser at the end of 2018.
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GdP NRW member magazine
Axon website with information about the Taser 7