The police in North Rhine-Westphalia are equipped with tasers across the board. Experts and politicians are now again expressing, sometimes sharply, criticism of the allegedly non-lethal weapon.
Dortmund / North Rhine-Westphalia – Although the electric shock pistols are considered non-lethal weapons, people have already died in Germany when they were used, RUHR24 * knows. Experts from NRW * are now expressing massive criticism again. Because a study from England on the use of tasers by the police shows astonishing *.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, too, the distance electro-pulse devices (DEIG) are to be used, among other things, for deterrence. To do this, the police are equipping officers in five major cities with the tasers, including Dortmund, Düsseldorf and Cologne. Experts and politicians are amazed and speak of “martial armament”. * RUHR24 is part of the IPPEN.MEDIA editorial network.
