A REPORT that criticises the way police use Tasers highlights the need for improvement, says NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione.
Ombudsman Bruce Barbour tabled his report into Taser use by the NSW police in state parliament on Tuesday.
It makes 46 recommendations about how police should use a Taser and how to improve Taser training for general-duties officers.
The report says police should ban repeated Taser use and drive-stunning, where the Taser is directly applied to a person's skin.
It also says Tasers should not be used when people are trying to run away from police.
The recommendations follow the death of Brazilian student Roberto Laudisio Curti in Sydney's CBD after he was chased and tasered by police in March.
"It does highlight areas where we can improve," Mr Scipione said on Tuesday.
"We say quite clearly, these devices cannot and will not be used as a compliance device."
Police Minister Michael Gallacher said the recommendations would "enhance" the work of NSW police.
NSW Greens MP and justice spokesman David Shoebridge said it was "remarkable" the ombudsman's report had failed to consider the evidence given at the Curti inquest.
"The highest-profile potential abuse of Tasers by NSW police has flown under the ombudsman's radar and failed to inform this report," he said in a statement.
Mr Shoebridge said a clear option for limiting Taser use by police was to withdraw them from general-duties officers and allow only specially trained squads to use them.
Mr Barbour said there had been a number of incidents where Tasers were used inappropriately.
"A Taser should never be used to drive-stun a person, or discharged at a person who is fleeing police or who is in handcuffs unless there are exceptional circumstances," the report states.
The report also says a Taser should never be applied for more than 15 seconds.
It reviewed 556 individual Taser incidents between June 2010 and November 2010 and found the devices were appropriately used in 476 incidents.
In 27 incidents police should not have fired the weapon at all.
"Whilst we only identified a small number of misuses, it is unacceptable to see situations where Taser use failed to comply with police procedures and was unreasonable," Mr Barbour said in the report.
"An officer must be in danger of serious actual bodily harm (not just in danger of any level or type of injury) to discharge a Taser."
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