Hi Rick, I'm a police officer and therefore have a decent amount of experience with your product.
I think it's great, and a really useful tool. Especially considering I work in the UK where we have no firearm option without calling in a firearms unit, which can take over half an hour in a rural area.
As much as I love it, what concerns me about the product is its high rate of failure. From memory I believe my force cites a 43% success rate upon firing (of course, this does not account for the times you don't need to fire because it's a great deterrent, which I feel is its best use - and that number is only from memory so I welcome correction). For this reason the bullet will never become obsolete any time soon - and we've been in situations where two tasers hit their mark and are unsuccessful (you don't need to be told the factors that can cause this), and in this case we're back to square one of taking on a knife man with spray and batons only now we've lost our opportunity for a quick rush in to overwhelm and they're more confident.
What innovations are being made to improve this number? And is there any scope to extend the effective range?
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Hi Rick, I'm a police officer and therefore have a decent amount of experience with your product.
I think it's great, and a really useful tool. Especially considering I work in the UK where we have no firearm option without calling in a firearms unit, which can take over half an hour in a rural area.
As much as I love it, what concerns me about the product is its high rate of failure. From memory I believe my force cites a 43% success rate upon firing (of course, this does not account for the times you don't need to fire because it's a great deterrent, which I feel is its best use - and that number is only from memory so I welcome correction). For this reason the bullet will never become obsolete any time soon - and we've been in situations where two tasers hit their mark and are unsuccessful (you don't need to be told the factors that can cause this), and in this case we're back to square one of taking on a knife man with spray and batons only now we've lost our opportunity for a quick rush in to overwhelm and they're more confident.
What innovations are being made to improve this number? And is there any scope to extend the effective range?
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