{"id":7655,"date":"2015-08-17T11:11:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T22:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7655"},"modified":"2015-08-17T11:11:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T22:11:41","slug":"why-did-police-breach-own-taser-rules-and-inflame-tppa-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=7655","title":{"rendered":"Why did Police breach own Taser rules and inflame TPPA protest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg\" alt=\"Minto\" width=\"82\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg 82w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-75x50.jpg 75w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-80x56.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 82px) 100vw, 82px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana Vice President John Minto<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/taser.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7660\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/taser-1024x558.jpg\" alt=\"taser\" width=\"1024\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/taser-1024x558.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/taser-300x163.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/taser-570x310.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/taser-701x382.jpg 701w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/taser-1067x581.jpg 1067w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/taser.jpg 1249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These police procedures for \u201cElectro Muscular Incapacitation\u201d devices (tasers) contain several restrictions on their use including<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s seems clear that police on the Wellington TPPA demonstration yesterday were in breach of their own rules for use of the taser.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyblog.co.nz\/2015\/08\/16\/citizens-face-police-armed-with-tasers-at-wellington-tppa-protest-march\/\">Frank Macskasy\u2019s blogpost<\/a>\u00a0today has photos clearly identifying several officers carrying tasers and yet the police \u201cstandard operating procedures\u201d are clear they are not to be carried by police at demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>These police procedures for \u201cElectro Muscular Incapacitation\u201d devices (tasers) contain several restrictions on their use including:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Restrictions\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The use of EMI device is restricted in the following circumstances:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Crowd Situations\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a single shot weapon, the EMI device is best suited to application against individuals.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><em>In crowd situations, consideration must be given to the potential to inflame the situation before an EMI device is utilised.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p><em>The EMI device is not to be carried by members rostered for duty at demonstrations.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The inflammatory effect of their presence on the demonstration is reported by Wellington demonstrators \u2013 the very thing the operating procedures were designed to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Police have carried tasers on other demonstrations and I was involved in a complaint about officers armed with this weapon at a protest at the GCSB spybase at Waihopai in January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>It could be however that police operating procedures have changed (I can\u2019t find any evidence of this online) and that police no longer have concern for their inflammatory effect.<\/p>\n<p>Either way protests need to be lodged with the (so-called) Independent Police Conduct Authority, Phone\u00a0<a href=\"tel:0800503728\">0800 503 728<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"tel:044992050\">(04) 499 2050<\/a>\u00a0or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:enquiries@ipca.govt.nz\">enquiries@ipca.govt.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana Vice President John Minto These police procedures for \u201cElectro Muscular Incapacitation\u201d devices (tasers) contain several restrictions on their use including It\u2019s seems clear that police on the Wellington TPPA demonstration yesterday were in breach of their own rules for use of the taser. Frank Macskasy\u2019s blogpost\u00a0today has photos clearly identifying several officers carrying tasers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}