The government has authorized the use of taser guns

The measure was provided for in Resolution 395/2019, published in the Official Journal and signed by the Minister. Patricia Bullrich, and comes after last January of the portfolio announced the purchase of taser guns use at the beginning in railway stations and airports.

In this context, officials from the Federal Police, the airport security police, the Navy Prefecture and the National Gendarmerie were tasked "to immediately implement training courses specific to the use of non-lethal electronic weapons. "

In the recitals of the provision, it is stated that the incorporation of these weapons "This will address operational situations in which it is necessary to use force without the use of firearms, constituting an intermediate means to exercise a rational and progressive use of force in confrontations with violent or threatening people. "

Similarly, it is stressed that "international regulations and doctrines report the results obtained in medical and technical studies carried out in prestigious universities (…), where it is concluded that the use of weapons electronic does not have a deadly effect on people. "

In the annex to the resolution of the Ministry of Security, it is decided that non-lethal electronic weapons will be used in the following cases: "immobilize, arrest or prevent the escape of those who present an imminent danger of injury or self-mutilation, when self-defense or third parties must be exercised, or d & # 39; prevent the commission of a crime of public action

In addition, another point of the regulation clearly states that "before the necessary use of non-lethal electronic weapons, federal police and security officials must identify themselves with Aloud as such, warning of their immediate intervention may pose a risk of injury to others, or where it is manifestly insufficient or unnecessary, given the circumstances of the case ".