A number of community groups and concerned citizens have their discontent with the Taser as part of the arsenal of the Montreal police expressed.
The hearings were recently in the town hall before the Committee on Public Safety held, and several of Montreal, their arguments for a ban, including the present members of the Black Coalition of Quebec (BCQ) and Alderman Marvin Rotrand.
Felipe said that the case register Quiles, 38, 18 October 2007 Four days after the repeated death by a policeman from Montreal to San beaten
Michel. In his report, said the coroner Catherine Rudel-Tessier were poorly trained and arrest the officers broke the rules on the use of Taser services.
Since the death, the police and Montreal RCMP officers who were armed with the Taser, to participate in continuing education.There are only 17 used by police Taser in Montreal, we employed a total of 11 times in 2009.
The gun manufacturer, Taser International, has also claim that the Taser does not cause immediate death of a suspect. 25 Canadians after the shot with a Taser and more than 300 died in the U.S..
peppered At the hearing, the citizen-advisers with questions. Ral Advisor Mnard wondered if the 17 barnacles were removed from the arsenal, and which weapon would be replaced. Hampstead Mayor William Steinberg Patrick Bolland pressed to prove statistics, see Tasers are dangerous, ignored the lack of information available to the town supported its use in addition to the data from Taser International.
Everyone thinks that the Taser is safe, but I see that you die, says Bolland, part of the coalition for the eradication of Taser.
On the role played in the death of weapons, said Tessier-Pack has become the Taser was the cause, but said doctors who ask him whether the gun was part of a cocktail patients, including drugs and alcohol, which treated her death .
Montreal Public Safety Committee would produce a report with its recommendations in June