http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA70F.htm
Jamie Douglass
"The Taser stun gun allows police to immobilise a suspect without getting their hands dirty. Apparently, police officers across England and Wales are to be issued with Taser stun guns, as authorised by the home secretary David Blunkett (1). The Taser, for those of you who have neglected your small arms studies of late, is a police officer's wet dream.
It's a gun, but it doesn't kill. Instead, it fires out two small darts attached to an electric wire. Upon arriving at felon central, a 50,000-volt shock is delivered that overrides the central nervous system and sends Mr Burglar off to spasm land for a bit - during which time he can be cuffed and carted off. All the benefits of a hand-cannon with none of the tedious lawsuits that can so often arise from a corpse. Of course, the devices will only be issued to firearms officers, so your average bobby on the beat will not be able to 'deploy' one arbitrarily."
