Telegraph has an account of police using tasers to help them take person with Alzheimer's to hospital. You'd think that the authorities would at the very least wait until they had investigated the incident before saying anything, or even think before they spoke, but step forward Chief Superintendent David Hilditch:
'Our police officers and PCSOs have a variety of difficult situations to deal with on a day-to-day basis and are trained to tackle a variety of different situations.
''It's very sad that this gentleman had to be restrained through the use of a Taser but the officers were faced with a significant level of violence.
''It is to their credit that they successfully restrained the 59-year-old man without injury to himself and took him to a place of safety to be treated.''
No doubt it would have been sadder still if the three taser shots had killed the gentleman and safely delivered him to the undertaker's. But authority has to be proclaimed to be right, whether it is right or not.
