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Another Police Dept Going to Full Deployment (5 Ratings) 21-Sep-07 05:07 am http://www.wsls.com/servlet/Satellite?pa...
Entire Lynchburg Police Force to Get Tasers
by Aimee Norton / WSLS NewsChannel 10
Sep 20, 2007
Lynchburg Police Officer T. C. Clemmons carries a taser with him on daily patrols.


"You never when the situation will arise where you need to take somebody into custody," said Clemmons.


If that person doesn't want to go, a taser might be the next step. Soon every officer on Lynchburg's police force will carry one.


Head of the Special Operations Unit, Captian Brandon Zuidema, said, "It's not typically a situation of okay we'll stand here and wait for it to get here and then deploy. You need it when you need it."


"Rather than having to go hands on with them and get into a physical confrontation, half to physically fight with them...we can use a less lethal option," said Lt. Mike Staley.


Zuidema said in a lot of cases the taser makes more sense than even pepper spray.


"I would spray you but I'm also gonna spray people around you and people downwind from you. Whereas, when I apply the taser, it's a very accurate weapon, it has that laser sighting system and I'm gonna apply it to you only," he said.


"It doesn't have any long-lasting affects. As soon as the weapon has cycled it's five seconds the person is back," said Staley.


Right now nearly 40 officers carry tasers. Each of them has felt it's shock.


"It totally incapacitates you. I mean, that's what it does," said Clemmons.


With the lights out, you see the full affect. Officer Clemmons says that's enough to make some people think twice.


"A lot of times the suspect will just give up and go voluntarily without having to go hands on with them," he said.


It will take at least a year for to get a taser to every officer. Money from property seized in drug arrests will help pay for them. Each taser is $700.


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