RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said a force-wide order to stop using the electronic guns could compromise the safety of both officers and the public.
The head of the national police force, however, said Tuesday he sees no need for Mounties to holster their Tasers. The official who had seen a copy said Kennedy would not make "concrete'' recommendations if "everything was hunky-dory.'' Last month, Day asked the RCMP watchdog to look at how the national police force uses Tasers and to provide him with an interim report by Wednesday. The 40-year-old man died Oct.14 after he was zapped with an RCMP Taser and subdued by officers at Vancouver International Airport. The report from Paul Kennedy, head of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, follows a furor over the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. "They're recommendations for immediate implementation,'' said an insider familiar with the report to be handed to Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.
OTTAWA - The RCMP's public watchdog will make 10 recommendations Wednesday calling for swift action on how Mounties use Tasers as an international uproar over the powerful stun guns continues to reverberate.
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