Public Safety committee  It did, and that's why, when that study raised those concerns, the human studies went to find out if we had the same effect as they saw in those particular studies that were done several years ago, because obviously the human study is the model where we're using it. We did not re

Public Safety committee  I'm not aware of any psychological studies that have been done. I know we have worked with the mental illness associations both in Canada and the United States. In fact, we were endorsed by the national schizophrenic group within British Columbia several years ago as being a good

Public Safety committee  Yes, they did. The Home Office actually spent two years and £3 million. They did the same type of protocols, and they are now collecting the field data as well. When they went out to the initial use in 2003, I believe it was, they only limited it to five agencies. It was very co

Public Safety committee  Absolutely not.

Public Safety committee  Typically it's law enforcement officers who will provide the training. We do what we call a “train the trainer” program where they will attend a taser training. It's a two-day course to become an instructor, where they will learn how the taser works and then they will take that m

Public Safety committee  Yes, I do. You bring that up in the context of just a taser. I would say we are following the industry standard--what is being done for pepper spray, for the baton, for physical restraint, for firearms. The standard that's out there, that we're following in training the trainer a

Public Safety committee  We think we have the best training out there today.

Public Safety committee  We absolutely do. In fact, we just released version 14 of our own trainings over the last several years. And Mr. Palmer mentioned earlier that the feedback loop is a key factor for any training, so we take that very seriously also. We'll continually update to provide the latest m

Public Safety committee  The electrical pulse they deliver is the same. We limit the distance to 15 feet, where for law enforcement it's 35 feet.

Public Safety committee  In a lot of the instances the departments, at the department level, did track injury rates before versus when a taser came in. Obviously they've had injuries in the past . For example, in the United Kingdom, they were documenting injury rates to officers. When a taser was being d

Public Safety committee  We have not seen an increase in the risk factor with multiple exposures to the taser. The way it was relayed to me is that if I have two cups that each have 100 degrees of water and I pour them together, I don't have 200 degrees of water. I have more of 100 degrees of water. And

Public Safety committee  That's the standard trend out there for any use of force. You don't want to have somebody just sit there and hit him with a baton over and over again either. The idea of using force by law enforcement is to take that person into custody with the least amount of force possible in

Public Safety committee  That's part of the reason we recommend that the officers get tasered in the training, so that while that officer is getting tasered, the other officers are hands-on and touching that officer so they can realize the electricity is very lazy; it's trying only to go between those tw

Public Safety committee  I do not know the temperature, off the top of my head.

Public Safety committee  Certainly.