Right: The death of fifteen-year-old Tyler Cassidy has brought renewed calls for retraining of police.
web links and documents
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has an entry supplying information about Victoria Police Critical Incident Response Team. The item outlines what these teams are intended to do and how they are equipped.The entry can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Incident_Response_Team
The Barr Tribunal was a tribunal of inquiry into the facts and circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of John Carthy at Abbeylara, Co Longford, Ireland, on 20th April 2000. The tribunal was is relevant to the Tyler Cassidy case as it clearly outlines the form of training that British and all similarly trained police officers receive in the event of their having to shot a member of the public. This training is outlined at http://www.barrtribunal.ie/OpenStatement2.html
under the general heading The Decision to Fire and the Pathology and Neurology Reports
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has an entry supplying information about the 'stun guns' known as tasers. The entry explains how they work, where they are used and includes information about safety concerns regarding them and their capacity for misuse.
The full text of this entry can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser
On December 12, 2008, the ABC's Local Radio program The World Today, included a detailed report on the shooting of Tyler Cassidy. The report includes comments from witnesses, the Assistant Commissioner, Tim Cartwright and from father Peter Norden of the Victorian Criminal Justice Coalition. The full text of the report can be found at http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2444771.htm
On December 14, 2008, The Canberra Times published an editorial titled, 'Boy's killing shows up faults in police methods'. The report is critical of the procedures followed in the Tyler Cassidy incident and suggest that the youth's death has lessons to teach other Australian police forces. The full text of the editorial can be found at http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/opinion/editorial/general/boys-killing-shows-up-faults-in-police-methods/1385861.aspx?storypage=2
On December 17, 2008, the World Socialist Web Site published a report titled. 'Australia: Police gun down 15-year-old boy'. The report is extremely detailed and includes information from some witness accounts not supplied in other media sources. It also gives background information on the number of police shootings in the twenty years prior to Tyler Cassidy's death.
Though informative, the report needs to be handled with some care, as it is clearly critical of the police response.
The full text of the report can be found at http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/kill-d17.shtml