G'day Gang,
In the last couple of weeks I've heard a huge increase in the amount of requests for tasers.
Used to be that only MIG/ROG/TRG used to carry them but now there seems to be a lot more of them about.
AZ202 (the Mirrabooka night-shift traffic car) has advised VKI when they booked on this week they have one.
I've also heard a few requests one this morning for someone to bring one out from Midland base...
Are these now carried by all GD's cars? What's the deal??
cheers
Tom
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I thought you all would be interested in an article that appeared in today's The West Australian in Inside Cover titled aptly 'Sgt Pepper's academy band eyes out recruits'...
I await your opinions'It wouldn't be a police academy unless the drill sergeants gave the new recruits a good spray from time to time. But there were some red faces and very sore eyes recently when a WA Police Academy instructor, who we've dubbed Sgt Pepper, put half a dozen new recruits in hospital with a spray they'll never forget.
The coppers were getting a taste of what life can be like on the front line when a standard training exercise turned nasty, or should that be sour?
Capsicum or pepper spray, now seen in every copper's utility belt, was squirted on to the foreheads of a group of recruits so they could experience for themselves the debilitating effects. By golly, it worked.
Six of the 30 recruits were taken to nearby Joondalup Hospital with severe eye, nose and throat irritation and one still cannot drive because of the damage done to her retina.
If that's not bad enough, the six sufferers were all coppers freshly recruited from Britain to experience life Down Under and bolster our police numbers.
"It really upset some of the people," WA Police Union chief Mike Dean said.
Some in the union are arguing for an end to the training exercise and for the time being Sgt Pepper and his band of academy colleagues have been asked to cease spraying newcomers.
"This has been done for a long time in consultation with Worksafe," Police Commissioner Karl "Onions" O'Callaghan said. "It's done because often police who are using the spray can experience a secondary exposure. The idea is to put a small spray on the forehead and it runs down into the eyes."
While a review of the training method is under way, a particularly potent batch of the pepper spray is being blamed for the extremely adverse reaction and has been recalled.
A batch of pepper spray that's too potent? Better check those batons don't leave bruises.'
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Since 1987 and still going strong
In our squad only one recruit opted not to get sprayed for her own reasons. We gave her some slack but fair enough. Once I experienced the spay myself I realised how good it really is. It does make you panic a bit at first but then you can control it(not the pain though).Chicky wrote:I thought you all would be interested in an article that appeared in today's The West Australian in Inside Cover titled aptly 'Sgt Pepper's academy band eyes out recruits'...
I await your opinions'It wouldn't be a police academy unless the drill sergeants gave the new recruits a good spray from time to time. But there were some red faces and very sore eyes recently when a WA Police Academy instructor, who we've dubbed Sgt Pepper, put half a dozen new recruits in hospital with a spray they'll never forget.
The coppers were getting a taste of what life can be like on the front line when a standard training exercise turned nasty, or should that be sour?
Capsicum or pepper spray, now seen in every copper's utility belt, was squirted on to the foreheads of a group of recruits so they could experience for themselves the debilitating effects. By golly, it worked.
Six of the 30 recruits were taken to nearby Joondalup Hospital with severe eye, nose and throat irritation and one still cannot drive because of the damage done to her retina.
If that's not bad enough, the six sufferers were all coppers freshly recruited from Britain to experience life Down Under and bolster our police numbers.
"It really upset some of the people," WA Police Union chief Mike Dean said.
Some in the union are arguing for an end to the training exercise and for the time being Sgt Pepper and his band of academy colleagues have been asked to cease spraying newcomers.
"This has been done for a long time in consultation with Worksafe," Police Commissioner Karl "Onions" O'Callaghan said. "It's done because often police who are using the spray can experience a secondary exposure. The idea is to put a small spray on the forehead and it runs down into the eyes."
While a review of the training method is under way, a particularly potent batch of the pepper spray is being blamed for the extremely adverse reaction and has been recalled.
A batch of pepper spray that's too potent? Better check those batons don't leave bruises.'
If they send recruits out in the field who have not been sprayed then there are going to be problems. I am just thankful I experienced it in a closed enviroment, dealing with that for the first time in the street while you are fighting a shitbag would basically turn to shit. They cant know how to control it or fight through it, some of them would just roll into a ball and cry.
Also that bad batch of pepper spray has left a few coppas with no spray at all, they are armed with tasers instead. From what I have been told taser is far worse than OC spray. If you are a crook then give it a few weeks before you play up so they can re-stock their spray.