Gardaí will be permitted to use Tasers on children and pregnant women

A pilot programme was launched on Thursday to equip 128 uniformed gardaí with the weapons to evaluate their use in advance of ...

Tasers Q&A: Despite death risk, few hard restrictions on use of weapons by gardaí

Tasers are being rolled out in response to “operational realities”, gardaí say. In other words, in response to the 300 gardaí who are injured on duty every year and the perceived increasing threat to ...