Fatality inquiry into police shooting recommends more crisis intervention training for officers

The need to make crisis intervention and de-escalation training mandatory for police officers in Alberta is just one recommendation stemming from a fatality inquiry into a 2015 case where a man opened fire on officers in north Edmonton before being shot dead.

Michael David Perreault, who had a long history of mental health issues and substance abuse problems, was shot and killed the night of May 18, 2015, by city police Const. Wayne Haltli after his partner, Const. Jeffrey Park, was shot in the leg with a sawed-off shotgun during a traffic stop.

Park and Haltli were members of the city’s Specialized Traffic Apprehension Team (STAT) when they responded that night to a 911 report of a suspected impaired driver in the Beverly neighbourhood, says the fatality inquiry report released Tuesday by Alberta Justice.

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