A half dozen members of the media underwent mock-threat-training with Victoria Police Tuesday.
Over the day reporters experienced situations with non-cooperative suspects, learned when pepper spray is effective and when it's not, and tried to make split-second decisions
in an instant -- decisions that could mean the difference between life and death.
As VicPd's Control Tactics Coordinator, it's Const. Kristin Greffard's job to put officers through their paces:
" Challenging them to difficult situtions under stress, and allows that porocess and that decision making to come a little easier. Not easy, but easier."
Greffard reviews all incidents where force is used:
" And of all the reports I reviewed, specifically in 2017 because those are the ones that I'm going off that are most current, approximately 1% of police interactions with the public resulted in force above compliant handcuffing. Which in the grand scheme of things is pretty low." .
Media though, proved more likely to opt for force if startled or confronted by a violent suspect, with many logging multiple "mock kills" by the end of the day.