I stand by the decision to issue tasers to New Zealand Police, and have made contact by e-mail to the Minister of Police, Hon Judith Collins to express that. I made the comment that tazers should by issued to ALL officers as PPE, under the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 it is the right of the employer to issue all employees with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and to take all practical measures to insure the saftey of there employees. The ministers comment in return was that Police are not under an "employer" but a commissioner, which makes it a diffrent story altogether. Alot of people don't think about the officers on the other end of the, and that it is there saftey that they (the tazers) are protecting. If the officer is in danger, I would say that by all means, USE IT. If the offender does not want to be tazered they shouldn't be doing anything that would cause them to be.