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.”
I think there is a fair bit of misinformation in this article. I challenge Ms Anderson to name a police service in Ontario that doesn’t spend at least 16 hours on use of force and de escalation training. In fact let’s go with all of Canada.
hahaha ...psycholigists needs to see Neurologists ...its the UNION stupid ....as the chiefs of polices all confirm they can't discipline anyone ,if they do the union go the so called 'arbitration' in 10 minutes the policemen is back on job some even flip the finger to the chief
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