Zero Harm / Zero Death Flashcards
Zero hard / zero Death Andrew LOKU (black male 45 years)
July 2015 near midnight
502 Gilbert street
Armed with a hammer
Cop was there for 21 seconds before shooting
28 witnesses
37 exhibits
23.5 hours of deliberation
Inquest concluded in 2017
Ensure that all patrol car is equipped with less lethal weapons example CEW, sock or beanbag concert at all officers are trained in the use of the weapon. Or defensive equipment such as shields and helmets.
Death of Jerry night 2004
Peel police
The services increase the emphasis on de-escalation and negotiation as a primary means of resolving potentially confidential situation
Specifically it is added three weeks of judgement and decision making training to us recruit training and a third day to his annual in-service training all of which focusses on de-escalation
Ontario ombudsman report
A matter of life a death
Recommends Ontario police forces use a revised use of force model that emphasize on de-escalation options rather than just force options. And that there be more recruit and in-service police training and emphasize on de-escalation instead of force
Shields
Re read this page 3. Not much to it really
Sock rounds
2016
Used in 74 situations. Fired 12 times, displayed 62 times.
In 2020
Lethal Shotgun
Less Lethal Discharge 2
Less Lethal Point at Person 34
CEW
Behavioural compliance
Only used when a subject is assistive In full Deployment mode. Dry stun or full Deployment
Not to secure compliance of a person who is merely resistant.
Less injurious
Since 2007 when The service started submitting any reports to the toronto Kelly services board on CEW use it has use a CEW more than 2800 times. During that period two people received an injury serious enough to invoke a Special Investigations Unit‘s and one has died (The cause of death however has yet to be reporter by the SAU now nabico 2017)
Yet after struggling or fighting with an officer when the officer uses only empty hand technique in those same years 310 people received an injury serious enough to invoke the SIu’s mandate and four died
Although not promote it as a substitute for lethal force when facing an Active potentially lethal attack it has been used as an alternative by Toronto police officers when lethal force would’ve otherwise been justified
Use is force used on the public
2.2 million documented contacts with the public of those 1177 times or .05% of the encounters used force
Ministry of Community safety and corrections services the ministry
Since 2002 we were governed by them and they gave Deployment of CEW’s first tactical units the emergency task force and there after to his front line supervisor Sergeant And some detectives
In 2013 the ministry lifted his restrictions on September 12, 2013 service submitted it’s 2014 Dash 2023 capital program request of the board that included an amount to fund the expanded development of CW‘s
On November 25, 2013 the minister released at amended CEW use of force guidelines and training standards the appointment is CEW‘s to other classes of officers the guidelines are largely unchanged from 2010 however the training standards now specify increase judgement training for new users and as a result the length of training increase from eight hours to 12.

CEW continued
Cew used as a weapon of Need not a tool of convenience
Officers Should not over-rely on cew In situations where more effective and less risky alternatives are available
Recommendation 14
Direct the chief of police to work with the executive directors and the city manager to identify opportunities for the development of alternative crime prevention and reduction initiatives that could ultimately reduce the demand for reactive Police services across Toronto
TPS Partnership initiatives fall within Ontario’s community safety and well-being planning framework
TPS officers are doing balance through both legislation and common law to maintain community safety and engage in preventing crime
We do this through program such as Focus toronto, toronto MCIT program and the gang prevention task force engage 416
To strategically and collaboratively push a situation away from the continued crisis through wrist mitigation and prevention in an effort to return an individual/family or environment back to regular service delivery independence and optimal community safety and well-being.
The four bands of the incident response
From incident response outward through
risk intervention, then
prevention to
social development
provide police officers the opportunities and duty-bound responsibilities to reform the common-law and statutory duty of
“preventing crimes”
and other offences and providing assistance and encouragement to all persons in their prevention. This is from police service exact RSO 1990 section 42 (1)(B).
all initiatives and programs employ a variety of strategies along these bands
In their current form the following issues meet the vision of recommendations number 14 further while the TPS continues to conduct upstream collaborative risk mitigation within partnerships, there are plans to do more and openness within the TPS to do more.
The following collaborative initiatives are growing, evolving, and actively mitigating upstream risks. Moving individuals and families away from acutely elevated crisis, arms, victimization, instant response, and reactive Policing.
FOCUS TORONTO AND TORONTO’S MCIT
Well other collaborations of smaller scale involved entire TPS divisions, multiple divisions, or neighbourhoods within the divisions. Many programs such as the 75+ TPS youth programs funded by pro action cops and kids are much smaller scale and too numerous to add and his response
Proaction cops and kids
Look it up on the Internet
Youth pre-charged diversion
Been in operation since 2017
This program is assigned to filter less serious crimes out of the youth court system and into the community run social services pro folio.
Since state 2017 the Toronto police services party with the Ministry of children community and social services I will have a memorandum of understanding. This program involves police officers formally referring use in conflict with the law in less serious criminal investigations do youth probation officer is at MCCSS.
Do use are not charged and brought before the corner relation to these charges, but instead sent to a program of the youth probation officer determines what benefit that youth.
The program is designed to reduce the stress on Youths and interject them into a social program that serves to benefit them and does not rely on a punishment model.
The intent of the strategies for effective in town intervention focussing on correct in the offending behaviour this intern has been shown to reduce recidivism directly reduce the demand for reactively services involving used in conflict with the law and less serious crimes.
In partnership with the ministry of children community and social services and youth focussed community agencies
Proaction Cops and kids
An independent charitable organization partnered with Toronto police services since inception 1991. Proaction expanded into Durham region in 2007, Hamilton 2008, in Holton region 2018. Proaction is reached over 420,000 young people through over to 2200 programs delivered in partnership with the over 19,800 police officers across our four chapters.
Toronto mobile crisis intervention team MCIT
Toronto Police in partnership with six hospitals and mental health nurse is paired with a TPS Officer
Three safety and well-being planning as per police services act.
Led by the city of Toronto in partnership with system leads from education, health, mental health, community/social services, youth community/social services, toronto Police Service is Board, toronto please service, ministry of children, community and social services.
Turn off please service military veteran wellness program
A newer TPSA initiative being developed in partnership with Provincial, federal an international partners to assist toronto’s homeless former military veterans access the federal services and supplies they need