Researcher: Flaws in police training may have led to more shot dead

– the Difference is that you have invested more on training offensive intervention, manage the ongoing deadly violence and terror, and not everyday events. They have got to stand back, " he says to SVT News.

police officers learn to shoot warning shots first, and then aim for the leg, but in the annual kompetensprovet that the police do shot not a single shot in the leg. He also sees shortcomings in the vapendelen in the police academy.

Many students and aspirants who I interviewed have indicated that they have had a single mörkerskjutning throughout the training. It has not stopped a car in the dark with a dangerous person only once during the training, there were others who said, " he says.

for the police's National operative department of the Noa, said that it had been necessary for the officers to train on more direct interventions, such as school shootings in the united states.

– the Lesson to be learnt from there was that the old doctrine, to block, to freeze the situation, to negotiate and let the situation speak for itself, didn't work. It led to the perpetrators were able to continue the killing of schoolchildren in this case, " says Hector to SVT.