Robert Dziekanski: Tasers

Police Officers Dept: B.C. police officers used their Tasers 640 times in 2007, compared to 85 deployments last year, assistant deputy justice minister Clayton Pecknold told an all-party committee assessing the status of recommendations to tighten provincial Taser policy since Dziekanski's October 2007 death, according to CTV. How many of them have been shot by police? said Slater. What has happened in the last five years? VICTORIA -- Taser use by police in British Columbia is down 87 per cent since Robert Dziekanski died at Vancouver's airport five years ago, prompting questions Tuesday from politicians wondering what police are doing now to control out-of-control people. The figures had Liberal MLA John Slater wondering what police have been doing instead to subdue people who are potentially dangerous. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.