Ian MacLeod of the Ottawa Citizen reports this morning that the Ottawa police will be getting new weapons and a mandate to shoot to kill in order to ‘eliminate’ mass murderers.
The new weapons will be given to 700 frontline police patrol officers. The Citizen says that the standard police policy in relation to ‘active killers’ will be moving from ‘containment’ to ‘neutralization.’ Compact C-8 CQB carbines (military weapons of the same caliber as the M16 or M4 – and of the type recommended by the IACP for suicide bomber interdictions) and the tactical response training required to use them will be provided to Ottawa police officers, at a total cost of $360,000.
In establishing the need for such a shift in policy and equipment, the Citizen cites a number of events, including the 1999 shooting spree at OC Transpo headquarters in Ottawa, the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School, the 1989 shootings at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, and “the worsening global phenomenon of deranged and often suicidal gunmen opening fire in schools, shopping malls, restaurants and offices and randomly killing anyone in sight.”
Absent from the article is any reference to national security response activities, and it does not appear as though this development is being overtly related to any counter-terrorism programs. However, it is worth thinking about the recent history of ‘shoot to kill’ policies. The Operation Kratos program of the London Metropolitan Police and the Suicide Bomber Training Keys published by the influential International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) clearly associate ‘shoot to kill’ mandates with national security enforcement activities. The July 22, 2005 fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in London, on the erroneous belief that he was a suicide bomber, is an illustration of shoot-to-kill in action. In this situation, the suspicion that de Menezes was a bomber led police to adopt a ‘neutralization’ approach.
Again, there has been no statement by the Ottawa Police linking their new shoot-to-kill ‘neutralization’ policy in relation to ‘active killers’ to shoot-to-kill policies designed to preemptively ‘neutralize’ suspected suicide bombers. However, the ongoing shift towards a paramilitary style of policing, coupled with the anti-terrorism mandate given to all Canadian police officers through Canada’s Anti-Terrorism legislation, means that it is unlikely that this policy shift will not have some kind of national security component. It will be interesting to see whether the Ottawa Police are willing to comment on this aspect of their new training program.
- Mike L
The new weapons will be given to 700 frontline police patrol officers. The Citizen says that the standard police policy in relation to ‘active killers’ will be moving from ‘containment’ to ‘neutralization.’ Compact C-8 CQB carbines (military weapons of the same caliber as the M16 or M4 – and of the type recommended by the IACP for suicide bomber interdictions) and the tactical response training required to use them will be provided to Ottawa police officers, at a total cost of $360,000.
In establishing the need for such a shift in policy and equipment, the Citizen cites a number of events, including the 1999 shooting spree at OC Transpo headquarters in Ottawa, the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School, the 1989 shootings at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, and “the worsening global phenomenon of deranged and often suicidal gunmen opening fire in schools, shopping malls, restaurants and offices and randomly killing anyone in sight.”
Absent from the article is any reference to national security response activities, and it does not appear as though this development is being overtly related to any counter-terrorism programs. However, it is worth thinking about the recent history of ‘shoot to kill’ policies. The Operation Kratos program of the London Metropolitan Police and the Suicide Bomber Training Keys published by the influential International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) clearly associate ‘shoot to kill’ mandates with national security enforcement activities. The July 22, 2005 fatal shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in London, on the erroneous belief that he was a suicide bomber, is an illustration of shoot-to-kill in action. In this situation, the suspicion that de Menezes was a bomber led police to adopt a ‘neutralization’ approach.
Again, there has been no statement by the Ottawa Police linking their new shoot-to-kill ‘neutralization’ policy in relation to ‘active killers’ to shoot-to-kill policies designed to preemptively ‘neutralize’ suspected suicide bombers. However, the ongoing shift towards a paramilitary style of policing, coupled with the anti-terrorism mandate given to all Canadian police officers through Canada’s Anti-Terrorism legislation, means that it is unlikely that this policy shift will not have some kind of national security component. It will be interesting to see whether the Ottawa Police are willing to comment on this aspect of their new training program.
- Mike L
2 comments:
New weapons and a "Shook to kill" mandate for Ottawa police --- wow!!
Priority for the police force should be efficient cultural sensitivity training not how to use military weapons!!!!!
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