Table of companies based in CoE member States manufacturing and/or promoting
direct contact electric shock weapons and devices for use by law enforcement officials
from 2012-2017
Country
Bosnia &
Herzegovina
Company
UNIS Group TRZ, d.d.
Czech
Republic
Euro Security
Products
Cyprus
Carriar El
Trading Limited
France
Le ProtecteurScorpion-ATAM
Equipment
Riot shield
with electric
shock stun
gun
Further information
The company has promoted its products to the
law enforcement community on it is website.
The riot shield incorporates a “stun gun”.40 It is
not known whether this converts the shield into
a de facto electric shock device.
Electric shock The company promotes a range of electric
stun guns,
shock weapons to the law enforcement
including two community on its website42 and through arms
models with
and security equipment fairs held in CoE
combined
member States and elsewhere.43 The company
pepper
promotes a 200,000 volt stun gun which it
spray41
states is for use by the general public and
higher voltage weapons capable of generating
500,000 volts “suitable for the professional
use.”44
Electric shock The company website promotes “electroshock
batons,
weapons” among its products and has images
shields and
of a range of electric shock batons and stun
stun guns.
guns labelled as “high voltage self-protection
devices” on its “anti-riot equipment” section.45
This section also includes images of an
“electric shock shield” and a “multi-function
electric shock shield” both with police
markings.46 In correspondence with Omega, the
company stated that no “such products
have…been sold or supplied to any law
enforcement, military bodies and/or
correctional services within the CoE, as of the
5th of January 2018.”47
Electric shock Le Protecteur-Scorpion-ATAM promotes a
batons and
range of electric shock batons and stun guns on
stun guns.
40
Unis Group, http://www.unisgroup.ba/protective-equipment/ (accessed 10 January 2017) subsequently
removed now available from https://web.archive.org/web/20140427034920/http://www.unisgroup.ba/protectiveequipment/ (accessed 16 November 2017).
41
Euro Security Products, http://www.euro-security.info/en/stun-guns.html (accessed 16 November 2017).
42
Euro Security Products, http://www.euro-security.info/en/ (accessed 16 November 2017).
43
For example see ESP attendance at China Police Expo 2014, IWA 2015 (Germany), SOFEX 2012 (Jordan).
(Information held by Omega Research Foundation).
44
Euro Security Products catalogue, distributed at IWA 2015 (Copy held by the Omega Research Foundation).
45
Carriar El Limited https://www.carriar.eu/anti-riot (accessed 16 November 2017).
46
Carriar El Limited, https://www.carriar.eu/fullscreen-page/comp-j4ps0kk0/398cd44d-38b7-4760-9e1e237606dd4512/17/%3Fi%3D17%26p%3Dc165h%26s%3Dstyle-j4v1wxm9 (accessed 16 November 2017).
47
Correspondence from the Director of Carriar El Trading Limited to the Omega Research Foundation, 5
January 2018.
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