The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department uses tasers to restrain violent individuals when alternative restraint tactics fail, or are reasonably likely to fail, and/or where it would be unsafe for officers to approach a subject to apply restraints. A taser uses an electrical current to temporarily disrupt voluntary control of muscles causing short-term neuromuscular incapacitation.
Commodity Codes: 68050 Guns Stun (Nonlethal) (Incl. Taser Weapons) (See 680-54 for EMD Weapons)
68050 Guns, Stun (Nonlethal), (Incl. Taser Weapons), (See 680-54 for EMD Weapons)