Police board approves expansion of Taser program

Ottawa police will spend $2.2 million to buy 800 Tasers over the next five years in a massive expansion of its conducted energy weapons program that will more than double the force’s stock.The city’s police services board approved the purchasing plan under which two waves of 400 conducted energy weapons, or CEWs, will be introduced to the force through a three-year phase-in plan, starting with front-line officers and working up the chief. The eventual goal, according to the OPS, is f