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The effective use of TASER within certain police forces namely Northumbria is strictly limited.The deployment of these is strictly controlled via a critical incident manager at police HQ,who will authorise its deployment based on information he or she receives via the senior officer in attendance. Then only if the Taser unit is available or as was on a recent murder in Newcastle not availble as the Taser unit could not draw out its weapons as the safe/armoury was locked.
Unlike CO19/Metpol the authority to arm is not with the troops deploying to an incident what ever that maybe,this includes the CSU, Northumbrias ARV`s, but with the CIM who is miles away in an office.
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