The Bisbee Police Department will be purchasing 14 Semi-Automatic Carbine Launchers and pepper balls to have in their vehicles as a non-lethal option enhancing public and officer safety in certain situations.
Bisbee Police Chief Tim Cox told the City Council, carbine launchers can be used from a distance, therefore promoting officer safety by not putting them in a direct line of fire or threat of serious injury in some cases where a situation can be defused without the use of weapon.
Cox added, officers will be trained, and part of the training requires them to be shot with a pepper ball exposing them to the effects of what the pepper balls can do.….read full story (online subscribers only)