Police and Civil Guard have used stun guns three times, one of them against two dangerous breed dogs

MADRID, 9 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Ministry of the Interior is aware that the National Police and the Civil Guard have used taser-type electric pistols on at least three occasions since they became part of the regulatory armament, one of them as a protection measure against two dangerous breed dogs .

The information was provided by the Government in a parliamentary response dated February 23 to EH Bildu's request to know on what occasions the National Police and the Civil Guard had used electric pistols, "as well as the intervention of the health services to the people to whom the shocks were applied".

"Currently, there is only evidence that the electric immobilizer has been used on three occasions," replies the Executive in a written response consulted by Europa Press, detailing that the first of these was in July 2022 in a town in Alicante "against two dangerous breed dogs that attacked the agents when they entered a private house to arrest its inhabitant".

The Government explains that the second time was also in July, in A Coruña, being used "against a very aggressive and dangerous person who attacked several agents when he was being arrested." In this case, they added, the arrested person was "immediately treated" by the health services and transferred to the hospital.

The third and last time the stun gun was used was in Madrid "in a case of domestic violence" in which the agents subdued a person armed with a knife. After the download, the detainee was treated at a hospital and "was immediately discharged."

The Ministry of the Interior led by Fernando Grande-Marlaska has begun to provide the Police and Civil Guard with this type of 'taser' pistols, with 1,167 units and 1,350 video cameras linked to electrical fixed assets, according to official data from the end of 2022. .

The use by the police of their regulatory weapons, in this case fire, to defend themselves against the attack of dogs motivated the PACMA (Animalist Party with the Environment) on March 29 to demand that the Security Forces improve their protocols to avoid disproportionate actions.

"The security forces should be trained to deal with animals in operations, so that the action is not disproportionate, as we consider it was that of the agents who shot three dogs in an arrest in Tenerife", PACMA has indicated in its account. Twitter.

The police unions JUPOL, SUP and CEP have come out these days in defense of some police officers after the dissemination on social networks of a video in which some agents shot dogs to defend their actions during an arrest in Tenerife.

"Three colleagues injured, two of them by American bully dog ​​bites. This morning it was in an anti-drug operation in San Isidro, Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife. They have shot the animals and they have done well, to protect their physical integrity", CEP replied on his Twitter account.

"They acted in self-defense against the three potentially dangerous breed dogs that attacked the agents," added JUPOL, which has denounced the "indiscriminate attack against the police on social networks."

The SUP pointed out that no shot at the three dogs reached a vital area and that the dogs represented a "clear threat" to the police, since they were used to try to prevent an arrest. "The agents acted at all times within the established legal framework and with the appropriate progression of means," they have maintained.