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Electroshock weapon
Taser is a line of handheld conducted energy devices (CED) sold by Axon Enterprise. The device fires multiple small barbed darts intended to puncture the skin and remain attached to the target until removed by the user of the device. The darts are connected to the main unit by thin wires that achieve a high dielectric strength and durability given the extremely high-voltage electric current they conduct, which can be delivered in short-duration pulses from a core of copper wire in the main unit.
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PC Rachel Comotto, 37, discharged the weapon at Donald Burgess, an amputee with dementia, after he was reported to have threatened carers with a knife at Park Beck Care Home in St Leonards-on-Sea.
Sussex Police officers Pc Stephen Smith and Pc Rachel Comotto are facing allegations of gross misconduct that they used inappropriate force against a single-leg amputee in a care home
PCs Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto face potential dismissal, should gross misconduct be proven.