To guard against this, the Queensland Police Service will audit Taser data downloads, stations will have detailed Taser registers, officers will have to record their Taser use and a "significant event" review panel will assess Taser use.
THERE is a risk police will become too reliant on Tasers, using the stun guns as their weapon of first choice, a review of a year-long trial of Tasers in Queensland has warned
NSW will begin issuing Tasers to all front-line police this month. Queensland has halted its adoption of the weapon after the death of a Queensland man last month who had been stunned 28 times
Almost half the police surveyed for the report by the Queensland Police Service and Crime and Misconduct Commission warned there was potential for overreliance on the Taser. A quarter said there was potential for misuse
better training was needed to ensure police did not needlessly use the stun mode, in which the gun is applied directly to the skin or clothes rather than fired from a distance
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