Taser Report Due Today
By 250 News
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 03:57 AM
Prince George, B.C. - The Chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, Paul E. Kennedy, will release his final report on the RCMP’s use of tasers (conducted energy weapons) later this morning.
The final report comes six months after an interim report was delivered to Minister of Public Safety, Stockwell Day.
In that interim report, the Chair of the Commission for Complaints against the RCMP made 10 recommendations for immediate implementation including a call for the use of tasers to be restricted to use only in situations where an individual is behaving in a manner classed as combative, or poses a threat of death or grievous harm to the officer, themselves or the general public.
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In any event,whatever is recommended will be most likely be ignored by the RCMP.
This is not an issue with the frontline RCMP members,it is an upper management issue that is not being dealt with.
That's where policy is decided and that's where the ball is being dropped.
Unfortunately,it is the guy's out on the street that are paying the price.