Pepper weapon for metro cops?
Faced with violent incidents on the rise in the metro, the STM is pondering equipping metro cops with pepper gel. I’ve never heard of the stuff, but apparently it can be deployed without causing discomfort to everyone else in a train or station, as pepper spray does.
The CNESST also notes that, when metro cops want SPVM reinforcements, the request has to bounce through five different people before cops are dispatched, and that this could be streamlined somewhat.
Ah, here we go: “La CNESST note aussi dans son rapport que certains comportements des constables eux-mêmes peuvent créer des risques pour leur sécurité.” Yeah. Don’t hire goons, that should be rule #1.
Hugo B. 12:18 on 2023-06-22 Permalink
…without causing discomfort? Sorry, I get very discomforted when any weapon is deployed on anybody. Not just because of the fumes, but the mere act of inflicting violence on an individual.
mare 13:18 on 2023-06-22 Permalink
Without discomfort = without having to stop the metro for half an hour.
The timing feels suspicious. Maybe those ‘pepper spray in the metro’ incidents a few months ago weren’t caused by passengers, but were actually caused by STM cops keeping ‘the peace’. Who knows… (This is just conjecture, I have no inside information.)