Canadian province bans police use of TasersPosted July 26, 2008 19:05:00 The Canadian province of Saskatchewan has banned the use of Tasers - or stun guns - by municipal police forces. The decision comes just days after a teenager in a neighbouring province died after being hit with a Taser. The 17-year-old boy was brandishing a knife when police in Winnipeg used a Taser against him. He died shortly afterward. Now Saskatchewan's police commission says police forces in that province will no longer be using the stun weapons. The chairman says there are questions about the safety of the weapon and that it has not yet been established one way or another that Tasers are safe, so he is asking for more medical and scientific information. The decision comes amid more allegations of police misuse of Tasers. At least one recent review found that some police officers were using the Taser too often and not exclusively to situations where their lives were being threatened. Over the past five years, 22 people have died in Canada after being hit with a Taser Received on Sun Jul 27 12:13:41 2008