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With around 60 devices, the test of so-called tasers in the police patrol duty is to begin in NRW.

According to the interior ministry, the distance electro pulse devices (DEIG) will 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 Taser 7 from the Axon company 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.

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The country was the first federal state to introduce the Taser at the end of 2018.

The official final report for the pilot phase in Trier at that time said: “The preventive effect of the DEIG is outstanding.” Just carrying the taser with you “in the signal color contains a de-escalating radiance.” The device was noticed regularly - and often had “to relax the Mission situation - before a formal threat ”.

In the one-year pilot period, there were initially 30 missions in Rhineland-Palatinate in which the Taser was threatened or actually shot down.

The police protected themselves five times, once they stopped a suicidal man who was about to run on a federal highway.

From the point of view of the Mainz state government, the test was so successful that the devices were made permanent for patrol duty.

According to a report to the state parliament, the taser was already used in 139 cases between December 2018 and the end of November 2019.

Whereby the threat had already worked in 76 percent.

Two forensic doctors from Ulm devoted themselves last year to the question of what effects tasers could have on those shot.

Apart from injuring the skin, they appear to do little damage.

According to the researchers, four deaths were registered in Germany between 2018 and 2019 as a result of Taser deployments.

In all cases, however, the autopsy could not find any direct or sole connection with the device.