The Police Department has begun an advanced tactical-pistol course that will be given to all anti-crime officers and eventually expanded to include other patrol cops in an effort to avoid “friendly-fire” killings that have resulted in the deaths this year of two officers who were confronting suspects at the time they were shot, the department disclosed Oct. 8.
Commissioner James P. O’Neill confirmed the move in response to a reporter’s question at a briefing on crime statistics at the Police Academy in College Point, Queens. Chief of Training Theresa Shortell said that the anti-crime officers were undergoing the training as a team, and that it would include videos involving “tactics that we see are a concern.”
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