Public Safety committee  Yes, exactly, and that's exactly the point. Sudden in-custody death from 1979 until now has identified a very similar profile of the person who experiences sudden death in custody, regardless of the restraint methodology used. It is nearly universally the violent, incoherent, ag

Public Safety committee  I have no problem with that line of reasoning, with a couple of caveats. Those would be that recommendations are easy to make and hard to make sensible. Take, specifically, the issue of not tasering a pregnant female. How does a police officer know if a 300-pound methamphetamin

Public Safety committee  There are a couple of answers--and I'll be brief, I promise. The Drug Abuse Warning Network in the U.S., whose data you can pull, revealed that six years ago, I think it was, 50% of the American population had experimented with an illicit substance, a psychoactive drug such as

Public Safety committee  It's an excellent point that you raise. The problem is that when these people die in sudden in-custody death, regardless of taser application, what happens is the person very suddenly becomes quiescent, and at that point there is no pulse. By the time you get the monitor on, if t

Public Safety committee  I think that's a really important point. I understand what Dr. Savard's point was in illustrating that the predominance of coronary disease was extremely high in that population. Stats, damn lies--we've all heard it about statistics, but when you evaluate a statistic like that,

Public Safety committee  That's exactly the question we're trying to address. There are a couple of important points about that. In the ideal world, that's what would happen. People have experienced sudden in-custody death following restraint on a cardiac monitor with an advanced cardiac life support c

Public Safety committee  Sure. I think it's a simple question with a complicated answer. Your question raises more questions in my mind, and the first thing is that safety and scope of practice are two different questions. I think most of us on this side of the table are poorly placed to answer the quest

Public Safety committee  Thank you. I'll just introduce myself briefly. I'm going to read my notes, because I take a lot of artistic licence when I speak freely. I'm Christine Hall. I'm a full-time emergency medicine specialist in Victoria, in the Vancouver Island Health Authority. That means I work s