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Police add Taser guns to arsenalSWAT team to be trained in tryoutBy Masaaki HaradaThe Journal GazetteOne year after foregoing the purchase of 83 Taser guns because of mounting safety concerns, Fort Wayne police said Tuesday they will reinstate deployment of the weapons in a pilot program.
The announcement came two days after an armed man was shot and injured by police officers. Fort Wayne police have also been involved in two standoffs in which officers killed barricaded people last year.
Tasers temporarily immobilize people with a 50,000-volt shock.
Police Chief Rusty York said the decision had nothing to do with those cases but with his confidence in the Tasers’ safety after the Police Executive Research Forum – a national organization of police executives – compiled guidelines for their usage last fall.
The department will purchase six Tasers and began training 28 officers with the Emergency Services Team, the department’s SWAT team, in March, York said.
The team will use Tasers for hostage situations, barricaded subjects as well as narcotics raids and warrant executions for high-risk suspects. Police will set its own guidelines for the use of Tasers by modifying the one created by the Police Executive Research Forum, he said.
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