Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly
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Speak of the Devil...
Assault, harassment charges against OPS officer stem from alleged intimate partner violence
Ottawa police officer also accused of carelessly using, storing his police-issued pistol
CBC News has learned that recent criminal charges against an Ottawa police officer relate to alleged intimate partner violence and involve a police-issued Glock pistol.Kingston Police announced the charges against the Ottawa Police Service officer in late April.
Court records show he is charged with:
- Assault.
- Criminal harassment (threatening conduct and/or repeatedly following and/or watching/besetting).
- Careless storage of the restricted Glock pistol issued to him by Ottawa police.
- Careless use of his police-issued Glock.
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Its a thing. I keep cops at an arms length too.
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Sweet Jesus... what in 'dog ate my homework' is this?
Young arrived at Shaun Orton's residence and found him hanging at 3:33 p.m. — about six and a half hours after his wife’s first call to military police, according to evidence from the hearing.
Young testified he thought it was too late to perform CPR. He noted Shaun Orton's body was still warm but had no pulse.
According to a summary of Young’s prehearing interview, he knew purple hands and feet were a sign of death because he had learned about it "watching true crime and researching on the internet." Asked about that during the hearing, Young said he can’t remember where exactly he got this information.
Call transcripts shed light on military police's alleged mishandling of suicide
Rare public hearing underway into death of Master Cpl. Shaun Orton
Young arrived at Shaun Orton's residence and found him hanging at 3:33 p.m. — about six and a half hours after his wife’s first call to military police, according to evidence from the hearing.
Young testified he thought it was too late to perform CPR. He noted Shaun Orton's body was still warm but had no pulse.
According to a summary of Young’s prehearing interview, he knew purple hands and feet were a sign of death because he had learned about it "watching true crime and researching on the internet." Asked about that during the hearing, Young said he can’t remember where exactly he got this information.
A couple thoughts…
Would the MP on shift not have run the member on their records management system (SAMPIS I think?) and seen the previous file with a suicide attempt? Was there no CPIC ‘observed behaviour’ flag indication suicidality? At least in the policing I’ve done you run CPIC and RMS checks as practically a first step when assessing an initial complaint.
It’s not clear whether there was or was not an explicit communication of intent to harm himself that was passed on to MPs. If there was not, I can see referring the matter to the unit’s duty staff potentially being appropriate. Is response for a wellness check outside of business an accepted and established transition unit responsibility? I could see it being so and it’s suggested in the article but I don’t personally know.
If it’s not super obvious someone is dead (decapitation, rigor mortis/bloating, the innards are now all outtards etc), try to resuscitate. Full stop. Lots of us have tried to pump CPR on someone who sure as hell was dead… But we aren’t doctors. What if you’re wrong? Preserving a scene should not be considered more imperative than attempting to preserve life.
Two members on for all of NCR? Ouch.
EDIT TO ADD: Oh yeah, and I still have to shake my head at the fact that in all these years there has been no mechanism devised to get MPs in Ontario designated as able to exercise the powers provided by the provincial Mental Health Act to apprehend and bring to hospital.
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