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June 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The Police Federation, which represents 124,000 rank-and-file officers in England and Wales, has written to the Prime Minister demanding the number of stun guns be trebled so they can be placed in the hands of every frontline officer.
Currently, there are 12,000 Tasers on the streets, but the federation wants to increase this to 36,000.
Officers are allowed to use the weapon only in circumstances where they “would be facing violence or threats of violence of such severity that they would need to use force to protect the public, themselves and/or the subject”.
But there has been a series of cases which have raised questions about their use.
Last month it emerged that police had Tasered an Alzheimer’s sufferer in his home when he refused to go into care.
A police watchdog inquiry is under way into the arrest of a man in London shot four times with live bullets before officers allegedly Tasered him in the groin in February.
Solicitor Sophie Khan, who has represented several people injured by stun guns, said: “This is arming by stealth. It’s all being rushed through without any public consultation or parliamentary scrutiny, just a letter to the government saying “we want more Tasers”.’
The Police Federation wants the government to invest £111million in more muscular technology, including having water cannon in mainland Britain for the first time and extra riot squad equipment to protect officers and the public.
But after a series of disturbing assaults on the mentally ill, vulnerable and elderly with the controversial 50,000-volt Tasers, critics say the move amounts to ‘arming by stealth’.
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