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3612345678910111213141516171819202122232425going to restrain the subject. So we wanted to have atime period that was sufficient for them to beginrestraints and to assess whether the weapon was workingor not, yet not go any longer than necessary, because westill have a police officer there, and if they need moretime, they could re-trigger it.Also, I should mention, we give the operatorthe ability to shut the unit off at any point in time sothat the operator can determine how long the cycleshould be. We just want them to make a consciousdecision how long it should be so they consciously shutit off, rather than accidentally or inadvertently shutit off by releasing the trigger too soon.So the five seconds, in discussions withCaptain Greg Meyer at LAPD, Darren Laur of Victoria,Canada, Steve Ijames out of Missouri, Sid Heal from LosAngeles County Sheriff's, we went around and talked to alot of people who had experience using the older TASERs,and many agencies trained their officers to press andhold the trigger for five to eight seconds, again, thatbeing a time period to give the device some time tostart working, for the operator to assess its effect,and for them to put the subject on the ground.I would also augment that in some of ourexperimentation on human subjects, our first human