For the Nigeria Police, it presents enormous challenges for a police Force that is battling vigorously to break away from its colonial heritage, military attributes and institutional deformities in an emerging democracy.
Democratic principles permeate policing strategies to the extent of reducing avoidable harm and deaths through the use of non-lethal weapons. This work therefore, is a concise analysis of one of the latest innovations in the application of non-lethal weapons in intelligence gathering and policing, known as LED In-capacitors (or LEDI, with LED standing for light emitting diodes). It could give law ... [Show full abstract] enforcement and security agents, yet another way to subdue a violent subject depending on test results at the Pennsylvania State University's Institute for Non Lethal Defence Technology. For the Nigeria Police, it presents enormous challenges for a police Force that is battling vigorously to break away from its colonial heritage, military attributes and institutional deformities in an emerging democracy.