Police need help to manage anger: B.C. coroner’s jury
Source: CBC News
09/05/08
Mandatory stress and anger management workshops for police officers are among the eight recommendations of a Burnaby, B.C., coroner’s jury probing the case of a teenager whom police shot to death in a stolen vehicle.
New Westminster police Const. Todd Sweet shot and killed Kyle Tait, 16, in 2005. Police said the stolen SUV Tait was riding in was ramming Sweet’s cruiser at the time of the shooting.
The inquest heard from many witnesses, including Sweet, some of his fellow officers and the jailed driver of the stolen vehicle, who said he felt responsible for his friend’s death.
The jury – two women and three men – deliberated five hours on Friday.
Their other recommendations included installing video cameras in all police cruisers, and mandatory annual sight and hearing tests for officers. They also recommended the immediate reassignment of any officer involved in a lethal force shooting or causing bodily harm.
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