TASER ECDs: How prevalent are they in law enforcement?
Posted by Steve Tuttle
TASER International is the market leader in advanced electronic control devices (aka ECDs). In the United States and Canada alone there are approximately 19,000 state/provincial, local and federal law enforcement agencies. And as of December 31, 2008, TASER International has sold approximately 390,000 TASER brand ECDs to more than 13,900 of those law enforcement agencies.
Perhaps the most telling statistic: more than 5,200 agencies of the 13,900 deploying TASER devices have made the decision to fully deploy these ECDs. This full deployment means that 5,200 agencies have provided TASER ECDs to all of their patrol officers.
This sea change in law enforcement is not unique to North America, as TASER devices are sold in more than 40 countries.