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Police shoot man during welfare check in Brisbane's north · The Slippery Slope

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  Right Jay Fallon then thanks for listening to the slippery slope
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  so just quickly let's go over a story that came out last week a
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  former police officer sent it to me The thing is I find
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  frustrating and I've spoken about this numerous times
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  there's obviously an issue there's obviously an issue and
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  something needs. To change and QPS the
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  organization the police service within Queensland I think it's
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  you that needs to change it's you that needs to change the
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  burden the onus is on the Queensland police service to
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  change somehow because you can't just keep doing the same thing
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  and expect a different result every time you cannot do it so
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  let's get into the story quickly and I'll.
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  You'll see why why I've got this point of view OK so this
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  headline came out it was on the first of April so police shoot
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  men during welfare check in Brisbane 's north so a 19 year
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  old man being shot by police north of Brisbane after his
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  mother called officers to conduct.
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  A welfare check the issue is this has happened so many times
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  in just recently so many times over the last couple of years
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  This is why I'm saying police need to change their strategy we
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  obviously have issues with mental health and you don't have
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  the same kind of support systems that we used to have quite a few
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  years ago now the system 's not handling it but police cannot
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  just continue going to these jobs and doing them exactly the
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  same way. This is part of the reason why I
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  believe we've got such a a rise in police shooting shooting
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  shooting members of the public because they're still going to
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  these jobs and still doing the same thing going through the
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  same processes and it doesn't work all we're seeing is more
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  people. Being shot I think part of the
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  problem also is the recruitment has gone the standards have gone
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  down when it comes to the people that we're recruiting now I'm
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  not I'm not saying this about these officers that are involved
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  in this I do believe there is a correlation between standards
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  being dropped in the recruitment process for the Queensland
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  police service and the amount of shootings police involved
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  shootings rising over the last couple of years and.
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  Police need to the police service needs to stop burying
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  their head in the sand when it comes to this and we'll go on
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  with the story so police said officers were called to akebia
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  street in Rana hills about 12:30 PM or attempting to speak with
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  the man when an altercation occurred regional crime
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  coordinator Andrew massingham OK said police would allege the man
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  produced a large kitchen knife while speaking to officers on
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  the lower level of the home. As a result there has been 2
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  shots fired by one of the male officers he said Superintendent
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  massingham said the man was struck twice in the abdomen
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  officers provided first aid at the scene before he was taken to
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  the royal Brisbane hospital in a critical condition
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  Superintendent massingham said the call for assistance had come
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  from the man 's mother. Who was present during the
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  shooting and that the man had previously received mental
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  health treatment mum is distressed she's traumatized he
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  said now look again I'll say I'm not saying that the police did
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  anything specifically wrong here I am saying that the police
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  service needs to review how they handle these kinds of call outs
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  because we're just seeing far too many end in this kind of
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  scenario and? That's why I say you can't just
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  keep going and doing the same thing again and again and expect
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  a different result Superintendent massingham said a
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  Taser was also deployed during the incident which will be the
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  subject of an ethical standards command investigation Oh no yeah
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  when they say this the Taser deployed will be the subject
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  that probably means that the officer who deployed the Taser
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  is going to get still called The Reg 11.
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  Well they're probably going to get some paperwork because they
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  probably they're they're going to be looking at going why on
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  earth did you did you present a Taser and deploy a Taser when
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  there was a knife a knife in front of you a man wielding a
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  knife so that officer will probably actually get in trouble
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  that's what I'm saying the timing of that in terms of when
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  the shots were fired will be the subject of the ongoing
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  investigation he said he said the officers had body worn
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  cameras which were operating at the time of the shooting.
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  Now if there are any officers out there listening to this and
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  you can shed a bit more light on the issues of this because I
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  think obviously things have changed since I left the service
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  and especially since I left general duties so when I'm
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  saying this about the Taser because when I was in general
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  duties if you pull the Taser when someone had a knife you
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  would actually get what they call back then a Reg 11 I don't
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  think it's called Reg 11 anymore but you'd get paperwork written
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  up against you because you shouldn't have done that.
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  But it seems yeah so they're also they're going to be
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  investigating when it was actually deployed and if it
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  could have been deployed earlier is what it seems so if you've
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  got any insights that you can you can put down right in the
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  comments that 'd be very helpful so Superintendent massingham
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  said the the police officer fired the shots was a first year
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  constable my goodness it is traumatic for all involved and
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  that young man is feeling and feeling it right now.
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  OK so like I said this this is the issue we've had several just
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  in the last year now I think it is definitely in the last couple
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  of years first year constables pulling their weapon and
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  shooting the Queensland police I'm not going to say anything
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  it's the officer OK he's done what he's done.
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  But the police service needs to review their processes when it
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  comes to going to these types of jobs and like I said I firmly
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  believe that we've had such a a rise in police involved
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  shootings because we recruit we've lowered our standards of
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  recruiting and we have officers who can't handle pressure who
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  can't assess situations. You know you need to be able to
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  assess assess each scenario extremely quickly and what else
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  can you say I think we've dropped their standards and
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  that's why we have so many shootings and I'm not saying
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  anything yes this chap specifically but you have to
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  look at. The broader picture we've got
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  far more police shootings we've got all these people going all
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  these police officers being called to jobs where it's a
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  mental health issue and how many times does it end in the police
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  shooting that person the police service needs to change the way
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  they do business that's my opinion I am a former police
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  officer and that is why I'm saying this my name is Jay
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  Fallon thank you for listening to the slippery slope.
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  They just. Fuel the