Winnipeg police taped off an area around a bus shack in the city's Unicity neighbourhood on Sunday, November 24, 2024.
Two recent fatal police shootings in Manitoba are prompting renewed calls to lengthen and modernize police education in Canada — and one expert says we should look to Nordic countries for ways to do that.An area around a bus shack in Winnipeg's Unicity neighbourhood was taped off on Sunday, Nov. 24, when police fatally shot a man after an officer was stabbed in the throat.
That approach "has achieved remarkable success in two key indicators: public trust and capacity to avoid the use of lethal force," the report said. Gary Conn of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police says its use of force advisory committee is looking at ways to increase public trust in police and to see fewer deaths and injuries resulting from police encounters.
Conn said the committee also hopes to modernize a national use of force framework or training aid in the next two years.Oriola points to Nordic countries, such as Norway, as having centralized and exemplary models of police education. So far in 2024, seven people have been killed in police shootings involving Manitoba RCMP, Manitoba First Nations Police and Winnipeg police, according to a CBC analysis. Three others died during other encounters with police this year.Why mass shooting inquiry said Canada should look to Finland for its policing model
It's a competitive program — Sandvik said the acceptance rate among people who applied for the 2024 academic year was 43 per cent. It was 32 per cent in 2023. Recruits are exposed to the use of batons and pepper spray in their first year, Sandvik said. They get some exposure to firearms in their second year, but mostly use them in their third year, he said.
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