Tasers now part of police utility belt

SIOUX FALLS, S.F. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls police officers are carrying Tasers for another less-than-lethal option when confronted with force.

Chief Doug Barthel says Tasers will reduce risk of injury to both officers and suspects.  He says the Tasers "provide another resource for the men and women who serve out city each day."

Barthel says officers are going through training in shifts.  He says close to 40 officers have Tasers.  

He says a Taser was used on a man who was not complying with officer's commands in an incident Sunday afternoon near Lincoln High School.  That the first time in Sioux Falls.