Rather quietly last November, representatives from law enforcement agencies in all 21 counties gathered at the State Police Academy in Sea Girt to learn how to use stun guns.
The training for county prosecutors in that week after Thanksgiving was an important step in the ongoing process to certify police and corrections officers in the use of electroshock weapons.
New Jersey is the last state in the union to permit police to have stun guns, but in doing so also has established one of the toughest set of criteria in the nation as to how such weapons may be used by officers, according to law enforcement officials.