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Police Constable Jocelyn Bell today described how she stopped a crazed baseball bat wielding man in this tracks with a taser.
Police are considering the future of the high-voltage stun gun, which was withdrawn in August following a year-long trial in Auckland and Wellington.
The evaluation of the trial is due to be presented to the Police Commissioner by December 14.
Ms Bell, a Police Association member and a front line officer, was part of last year's taser trial.
She told the association's annual conference in Wellington today that she was working the night shift in Porirua when she was dispatched to a domestic incident where a man was "going crazy with a baseball bat".
She arrived at the scene and was confronted with broken glass and neighbours yelling that a woman and children were inside the house.
She approached the house and a man charged down the stairs towards her. She yelled at him to stop and warned him he would be tasered.
Ms Bell said he got to the bottom of the stairs, looked at her them, screamed "`f**k you' and he just ran and I tasered him."
The association has hailed the tasers as an "outstanding success" and called for them to be brought into service.
Superintendent Tony McLeod told the conference Police Commissioner Howard Broad would probably want to consult with key people before making a decision, but said the decision was not a political one.
"This is not the minister's decision, this is not a government decision, it is the commissioner decision".
If tasers would introduced, work would be done about how best to deploy them, Mr McLeod said.
National leader John Key told the conference his party supported introduction of tasers if the current evaluation of the police trial proved positive.
- NZPA
