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The Mounties are making some videos, and you don't want to be in them. RCMP officers in Kelowna, B.C., and Moncton are testing two kinds of cameras that will record taser firings during six-month ...
That's right, three RCMP officers, all close to six feet and collectively weighing nearly 600 pounds, couldn't subdue someone the Mounties estimated to be 5-foot-9 and weighing 180. But Constable ...
OTTAWA - The RCMP complaints commissioner says the Mounties should be more careful about using stun guns on young people and the mentally ill. In a final report on RCMP Taser use last year, Paul ...
The infamous video of the encounter between Polish immigrant RobertDziekanski and the four RCMP officers should not have been publiclyreleased as long as there was a possibility of criminal ...
A top RCMP official says the Mounties would consider changing their Taser use policies if a public inquiry provides evidence for such a need. Gary Bass, the deputy commissioner of the RCMP's ...
The RCMP has shifted its Taser policy, now training its officers that use of the stun gun poses a risk of death “particularly for acutely agitated individuals.” Feb. 12, 2009 1 min read ...
Some 2,800 Tasers are being used by more than 9,100 RCMP members across the country and Mounties have fired the electronic guns over 3,000 times since their introduction in December 2001.
In a new approach aimed at reducing deaths caused by stun guns, ... RCMP told not to aim Taser guns at the chest. CTV.ca News Staff Published Monday, October 12, 2009 10:08PM EDT ...
The California Supreme Court set strict limits Thursday on the use of stun belts to restrain defendants in the courtroom, ruling that the electric shock devices -- which deliver an eight-second ...
The RCMP did not do “due diligence” when it approved the Taser stun gun for use as a less-than-lethal weapon by its officers, a hard-hitting independent review concludes.
The RCMP shifted its national Taser policy and are now training itsofficers that use of the stun gun poses a risk of death “particularlyfor acutely agitated individuals.” ...