REGINA The reported uses of force by the Regina Police Service (RPS) increased by 19.2 per cent in 2020, according to a Board of Police Commissioners report. In 2020, RPS said there were 329 reported use of force incidents, up from 276 in 2019. The report also states “variations in [police] uses of force appear to have a relationship to the changing nature of crime, drugs and firearms in the community.” “We do see small fluctuations year to year, and it really has to do with the types of calls that our officers are responding to, and what they need to do to resolve that call in a safe manner,” said RPS chief Evan Bray. “Are there weapons present? And we know that we seized the largest number of firearms in our history last year.”
Regina police use Taser on man threatening to harm himself with knife
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TORONTO Ontario’s police watchdog has cleared an officer who intentionally drove into a knife-wilding suspect in Toronto’s downtown core last spring, causing him to sustain a fractured wrist and foot. Police were initially called to a store in the area of King and Bathurst streets for reports of a robbery at around 6:10 p.m. on April 12, 2020. When they arrived on scene they immediately located the suspect in the area and directed him to drop the large knife he was holding. The suspect refused to comply and proceeded to walk southbound along Bathurst Street. In his report, SIU Director Joseph Martino says that a number of officers pursued the suspect. He said that a total of seven different officers discharged conducted energy weapons in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to stop.
RCMP officers threatened while at detachment, Conducted Energy Weapon used on suspect
Corwyn Friesen, mySteinbach RCMP Detachment in Flin Flon, Manitoba.
Flin Flon RCMP officers required the use of a Conducted Energy Weapon (CEW) on a male suspect after the man threatened the officers while they were in the detachment.
On April 19, 2021, at approximately 11:45pm, two RCMP officers were working at the RCMP detachment in Flin Flon, Manitoba when they heard a strong, rapid knocking on the locked front door. Officers inside the building said it sounded like someone was attempting to punch through the door. At this point, one of the officers went to the front window to look outside, but could not see anyone. The other officer then went to the locked employee entrance at the side of the detachment and opened it to look outside.
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Two people are facing charges after an altercation with police involving multiple weapons, a bulletproof vest and two conducted energy weapons being deployed.
According to a Saskatoon Police Service release Saturday, just before 7:40 a.m. police were called to the 400 block of Pendygrasse Road following a report of a man in a black Dodge Journey pointing a gun at a woman walking her dog.
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Officers arriving on scene did not locate the vehicle, but obtained a licence plate that led them to a home in the 2900 block of Preston Avenue South.
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