'Potential to save lives': Psychologist hopes police revisit shelved reports on use of force

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'Potential to save lives': Psychologist hopes police revisit shelved reports on use of force
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Recent allegations of excessive use of force among police in Ontario have thrust officer conduct into the national spotlight, but one expert in the field offered potential solutions to the police years ago that were never implemented.

In response to an ombudsman’s report in 2016, University of Toronto Mississauga psychologist Judith Andersen and her team developed two reports – one in 2017 and one in 2018 – that included best practices for de-escalating tense situations based and a guide to training officers on de-escalation and use of force.

The second report offered a detailed decision model for police encounters with a subject, including factors to consider such as body language, the surroundings and internal stress factors. While these reports were never implemented in Ontario, Andersen has been working with police forces all over the world, where she has seen a marked improvement in police use of force and de-escalation, particularly in Finland.

“We have a case example from Finland. We have their curriculum. We have the way in which they've instituted these evidence based practices and the outcomes.”

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