[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Marlborough area police commander has upheld veteran protester complaints against police over their actions at the Waihopai spy base protest in January, recognising that police had breached policy by wearing Tasers at a protest and that they had not acted to the standard police should.]] Marlborough Express, by Cathie Belll Marlborough area […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A clear case of “shooting the messenger”. Golden Valley City Council dismissed its Human Rights Commission – the state’s oldest such commission (created in 1965) – following its report on a taser incident and the shooting death of a woman by police. The independent commission has asked the council to form a […]
[[ SUMMARY / COMMENTS : The UK police watchdog needs a fresh approach at the top as it faces criticism over its handling of the Mark Duggan case according to this article in the UK Guardian, Following two taser-related eath in England, questionas are raised about, the head of the IPCC investigations team, Moir Stewart, […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “TASER-related injuries have increased in Queensland and a high number of suspects are still being repeatedly shot almost a year after tougher controls were put on police using the 50,000 volt devices….” although no widespread misuse of the gun was found. “Taser deployments since the introduction of the revised policy were generally […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: Following a $70,000 settlement in a videotaped police brutality case in which the taser was used against a woman suspect (not mentioned in the text), Beloit (pop. 38,000) taser instructor describes all the good news about tasers, and how his police force follows taser instruction. “only concern about the Tasers is that […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “Restore public confidence” – This is what Judge Braidwood said the RCMP had to do, following the taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski. By tasering an 11-year old aboriginal kid? More questions are raised about the 11-yr-old boy tasered on 8 April (see other posts). “The child was not living in a group […]
[[Summary / Comments : “Kevin Spratt received no warning on the day he was tasered twice, removed from his cell and tasered up to 11 more times … he was Tasered up to 41 times between August 30 and September 6, 2008.” ]] A SERGEANT working at Perth Watchhouse says Kevin Spratt received no warning […]
Pacific NW Inlander, by DANIEL.WALTERS [[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “The mayor alluding, momentarily, to the shooting controversies that continue to dog law enforcement [not the law on shooting dogs!]: “We continue to address public demand for greater accountability in our Police Department. Thanks to the work of the Council and concerned citizens, we revised the duties […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The UK Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) reports it will investigate a 2009 episode in which “[a] man says when he was arrested a taser was deployed and hit his head … The alleged incident happened in August 2009 when the man, … says he was hospitalised, receiving up to 12 stitches […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: A local newspaper reports on the follow-uyp of the death of Aron Firman in a group home in Co0lingwood, Ontario: “Firman died at the scene of cardiac arrythmia brought on by the use of the weapon on an individual in an agitated state, according to the coroner. The province’s Special Investigations Unit […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: The father of taser-victim Aron Firman (died June 2010) “says his son’s death would not have happened had the OPP (Ontario Provincial Police) had a mobile crisis intervention team in place”. Ontario Special Investigations Unit Board chairman Paul Montgomery noted the the argument “made a compelling case in principle . . . […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: We fear that the taser is becoming increasingly used, although rarely reported, behind prison walls. An officer in the Ottawa jurisdiction “was temporarily demoted for kicking and shocking a female prisoner with a Taser” (in bold in the post). Just how widespread is this?]] QMI Agency, by Doug Hempstead OTTAWA – Police […]
SIU Concludes Investigation Into Taser Death 7 dec 2010 The Director of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU)*, Ian Scott, has concluded that there are no reasonable grounds to charge an officer of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) — Collingwood Detachment, with a criminal offence in regards to the death of a Collingwood man in late […]
Globalshock: The June 2010 summary/recommendations of Volume 2 (Why?) of the British Columbia “Braidwood Inquiry” into the 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski. A long post which focuses on the circumstances surrounding Mr Dziekanski’s death following multiple tasering by RCMP police-officers at Vancouver International Airport … merits reading… Judge Braidwood concluded: ” … We will never […]
The June 2010 summary/recommendations of Volume 2 (Why?) of the British Columbia “Braidwood Inquiry” into the 2007 death of Robert Dziekanski. A long post which focuses on the circumstances surrounding Mr Dziekanski’s death following multiple tasering by RCMP police-officers at Vancouver International Airport … merits reading… Judge Braidwood concluded: ” … We will never know, […]
IPCC reveals outcome of investigation into arrest in Nottingham where taser deployed The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is today publishing the outcome of its investigation into the arrest of a man in Nottingham city centre in June last year, where a taser was deployed. Part of the arrest was filmed on a mobile phone […]
Independent Police Complaints Commission … All complaints about use of Tasers to be referred to the IPCC … Following the publication of an IPCC report in to the use of Tasers (in November 2008) the IPCC has today announced that all complaints made to police forces involving the use of Tasers should be referred to […]
AAP, by Steve Gray A police officer who fired a Taser stun gun at a 16-year-old girl used excessive force, the Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) has found. The CMC delivered a scathing assessment of how police handled a situation on the South Bank in April last year when the teenager defied a move-on […]
[[SUMMARY / COMMENTS: “Canada’s national police force should end its controversial use of stun guns, former RCMP commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli says. … But given the recent controversy surrounding police force’s use of Tasers in Canada, the former commissioner has reconsidered his position, he said… An analysis of 563 incidents by the Canadian Press last year […]