Sunday, September 27, 2009
Pay attention in training courses!
Looking at one of my favourite blogs tonight, Health and Safety News , I find this howler posted on Friday 25th September 2009...
Thames Valley Police has been fined £40,000 for breaching health and safety laws when a civilian worker was accidentally shot.
Pc David Micklethwaite, 52, shot control room employee Keith Tilbury, 57, during a firearms awareness course in Oxfordshire on 30 May 2007.
... Click here to read the full story!
This Pc David Micklethwaite sounds a right wally to me, he had already failed a gun training course and was then put on a firearms awareness course. For goodness sake, what a wally. I have nothing to do with guns but it is obvious that you NEVER point a gun at anyone. If you MUST do role play during a training exercise then it is obvious that the guns MUST be checked to ensure that they are empty. Common sense had clearly gone out of the window with this wally. I think his fine of £8,000 and being ordered to pay £8,000 costs was appropriate for his outrageous actions.
Looking at one of my favourite blogs tonight, Health and Safety News , I find this howler posted on Friday 25th September 2009...
Thames Valley Police has been fined £40,000 for breaching health and safety laws when a civilian worker was accidentally shot.
Pc David Micklethwaite, 52, shot control room employee Keith Tilbury, 57, during a firearms awareness course in Oxfordshire on 30 May 2007.
... Click here to read the full story!
This Pc David Micklethwaite sounds a right wally to me, he had already failed a gun training course and was then put on a firearms awareness course. For goodness sake, what a wally. I have nothing to do with guns but it is obvious that you NEVER point a gun at anyone. If you MUST do role play during a training exercise then it is obvious that the guns MUST be checked to ensure that they are empty. Common sense had clearly gone out of the window with this wally. I think his fine of £8,000 and being ordered to pay £8,000 costs was appropriate for his outrageous actions.
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Steve
You are correct, the first and most important rule taught during weapons training is you NEVER point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot. Accidental discharges shouldn't but do happen.
The second is Never mix blank and live rounds, espicially using a "Quality Street" tin (as another source reported was the case here) because sooner or later there will be a mix up.
Blanks are used during training for realism but are still dangerous so any firearm is aimed to the side of a person and only discharged within a specified safe distance.
Mr Tilbury is very lucky since the Magnum is a powerful handgun as Clint "Dirty Harry" Eastwood will testify. So for that matter is PC Micklethaite not to be on a manslaughter charge.
The whole incident sounds like there has been a serious drop in standards which is worrying when there appears to be a greater need for armed Police these days. Perhaps weapons training is best left to the military.
John
PS are you sure that do don't want a Harley?
You are correct, the first and most important rule taught during weapons training is you NEVER point a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot. Accidental discharges shouldn't but do happen.
The second is Never mix blank and live rounds, espicially using a "Quality Street" tin (as another source reported was the case here) because sooner or later there will be a mix up.
Blanks are used during training for realism but are still dangerous so any firearm is aimed to the side of a person and only discharged within a specified safe distance.
Mr Tilbury is very lucky since the Magnum is a powerful handgun as Clint "Dirty Harry" Eastwood will testify. So for that matter is PC Micklethaite not to be on a manslaughter charge.
The whole incident sounds like there has been a serious drop in standards which is worrying when there appears to be a greater need for armed Police these days. Perhaps weapons training is best left to the military.
John
PS are you sure that do don't want a Harley?
# posted by 
: 28 September 2009 at 21:04
: 28 September 2009 at 21:04
I agree with you on this one John, leave weapons training to our paid assassins.
Owning a Harley would be an expensive hobby that would not suit my wallet, wife or dog!
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Owning a Harley would be an expensive hobby that would not suit my wallet, wife or dog!
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