article_snippet.sent: Law enforcement experts say the gun should be holstered on a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer's dominant side of the body, and a Taser should be placed on the nondominant side.
article_snippet.sent: So if an officer is left-handed, the gun should be on the left side.
article_snippet.sent: But the reserve deputy said the reserve deputy was holstered on the reserve deputy right side -- the reserve deputy nondominanant side.
article_snippet.sent: But in the field, where an officer reacts on instinct, there are other distinctions outside of the product itself that are important, Tuttle said.
article_snippet.sent: A Taser's training calls for A gun to be placed on an officer's nondominant side, as law enforcement experts say.
article_snippet.sent: " as they prepare to deploy it.
article_snippet.sent: These guidelines are designed so that in the moment -- when an officer's muscle memory kicks in -- the body reflexively knows which weapon it is reaching for.
article_snippet.sent: It is up to each law enforcement department, however, in how it trains personnel and what regulations it requires as far as placement on the body.