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# Tasers

Last year
2023
Garda public order units to be armed with tasers, Commissioner tells TDs
All time
Gardaí report 47 incidents involving tasers and stun devices last year including one on a dog
Gardaí used pepper spray more than 250 times so far this year
Gardaí fail to notify GSOC about more than half of taser discharges within required 48-hour period
Police officers who carry Tasers are more likely to use force and be attacked
Frontline gardai need tasers and they need them now
John O'Keeffe
'Our job is becoming too dangerous': Call for Tasers and bodycams as 12 gardaí a week injured on duty
Police Taser man after reports of people being attacked at London mosque
1,800 extra police officers to carry Tasers amid increase in violent crime
Poll: Should all gardaí be armed with tasers?
Poll: Should more gardaí be armed with taser guns?
Taser fire at Raoul Moat was not approved