Force Science News

Force Science News #30
October 25, 2005

I. BREAKING NEWS: 2 COPS CLEARED BY FORCE SCIENCE
IN CONTROVERSIAL “SHOT-FROM-BEHIND” ENCOUNTER

After 6 tense years of investigation, 2 officers in London, England, have been exonerated in a highly controversial shooting, thanks to the last-minute analysis of the circumstances by the Force Science Research Center. The officers had potentially faced trial on charges of criminal homicide and long prison terms.

The shooting occurred in 1999 when Chief Insp. Neil Sharman and Cst. Kevin Fagan, so-called “gun cops” on London’s Metropolitan Police, confronted a 46-year-old Scottish painter and father of 3 who had allegedly boasted in a pub that he was armed with a sawed-off shotgun. At least one patron took him to be an Irish terrorist, and phoned police.

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Force Science News #29
October 7, 2005

10 TRAINING TIPS FOR HANDLING “EXCITED DELIRIUM”

DIRECTOR’S NOTE: One of the missions of the Force Science Research Center is to bring the latest research (ours and others) to the law enforcement community. Excited Delirium is a very high profile, significant social problem that although rare in occurrence has been very costly to the LE in terms of the health and safety of all concerned, reputation of the profession and certainly financially in terms of lawsuits against officers, departments and community.

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