Police are using the most of the weapons

The use of the police has increased with the help of the police, but the majority of deployments have not been completed.

Last February, the Toronto Police Services commissioned to expand the use of controlled energy (CEW) by equipping select constables with them.

Previously, only a few hundred sergeants were led with conducted energy weapons. That created a situation where front-line officers would have to call for backup if they required the use of one.

A quarterly report that will be considered by the board today, reveals that 361 constables are now trained and equipped with conducted energy weapons.

The report says that the group deploys their energy on this year. Sixty of those uses not only involving the discharge of the weapon, but also involving the production of a product of force. Another 13 of the deployments did involve the use of the weapon while it was involved in "drive stun mode."

The report found that front-line officers were more likely to only produce a sergeant.

Among the 413 sergeants equipped with a CEW, it was fully discharged at 50 percent of the time. The other furnace for occurrences involved the use of the weapon in "drive stun mode."

"This is the most demonstrated force in the world and has been attributed to constituting a CEW in place of resorting to empty-hand techniques to resolve a volatile volatile situation," the report states.

The report found that nearly 40 per cent of conducted energy weapons deployments, or by sergeants or constables, involved a person deemed to be in crisis.

The weapon was fully discharged on a person in crisis on a total of 12 occasions and used in "drive stun mode" another five times. The other 35 uses have only been a demonstration of force.

The board meeting is at 1 pm at police headquarters on College Street.