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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Former Nunavut RCMP officer acquitted of assault, ... Tomkinson then puts the Taser back in his belt. At one point, Tomkinson ...
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.
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 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 ...