Through the National Agency for Controlled Materials (ANMAC), the National Government authorized the City of Buenos Aires to import 60 tasers stun gunsa request formulated following the crime of the Buenos Aires police officer Maribel Zalazar.
“I confirm that ANMAC finally authorized the import of Tasers to CABA”, published the head of the Buenos Aires Government, Felipe Miguel on his Twitter account. Meanwhile, Security Minister on leave, Marcelo D’Alessandro, stressed that this is “great news that comes very late” and blamed the national Executive for the delay.
“We fought for years so that false progressivism understood that those who take care of us must be equipped with the best,” added D’Alessandro. Along the same lines, the Buenos Aires minister concluded: “Nobody is going to give us back the lives that were lost. The pettiness of those who made politics with the safety of the neighbors caused deaths.”
The PFA acquired 100 Tasers: the purchase was authorized one day following the murder of Maribel Salazar
For his part, the Secretary of Public Affairs, Waldo Wolff, said: “We finally got approval. Today we begin the path to train our agents and give them more tools to better care for the residents of the City. Argentina had to rise up to demand security from the Nation for them to act.”
Although the dispute between the Casa Rosada and the Government of the City of Buenos Aires over electroshock weapons has been going on for some time, the murder of officer Maribel Nélida Zalazar in mid-February revived the discord. The uniformed woman was attacked at the Retiro subway station, with her own regulation weapon.
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The Minister of National Security, Aníbal Fernández, had announced the purchase of 100 Tasers, model T7to allocate them to special groups of the country’s federal forces.
The purchase was made through a “direct contracting by simple award for exclusivity” to the company AXON Enterprise Inc., for an amount of US$169,990.
A week before the murder of agent Salazar, the federal judge in contentious administrative matters Walter Correa had ordered the government of Alberto Fernández to resolve in 30 days the request of the Buenos Aires administration to advance with the process of importing the Tasers.
What are Tasers and how do they work?
It is an electroshock weapon that fires electrified darts in order to temporarily incapacitate the person being shot. Although it is estimated that the use does not become lethal, the electrical discharges produced violently contract the muscles of the body, and can cause intense pain.
According to the publication Information TechnologyTASER technology generates a temporary high-voltage, low-current electrical discharge to override the body’s muscle activation mechanisms.
The recipient is immobilized through two metal probes connected via wires to the electroshock device. The person who receives the impact feels pain and is momentarily paralyzed while an electrical current is being applied.
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