[mass55th]

"If they were still under “evaluation,” use might have been optional. "

We were trained in the use of batons, and could carry them on duty if we so chose, but if we used that baton at any time, we'd be held accountable, and God help you, if you used it in a way that you hadn't been trained.

[PLMerite]

I guess it would depend upon what their policy was. If they’d had it on and deliberately turned it off because they were going to get up to mischief...