The Ontario Provincial Police has a policy to govern the use of spit hoods, but it doesn’t include the adoption of makeshift tools such as a towel to restrain someone from spitting at an officer, an inquest into the death in hospital of Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan has heard.
The inquest has heard Eberhardt placed a towel over Hassan’s mouth to restrain him and prevent him from spitting at and biting officers and nurses around him immediately before the man’s death.
The OPP policy stipulates that a spit hood is to be used if there is no other “reasonable, less intrusive way” to reduce the threat, provided that the prisoner is under control and restrained. There’s also a note in fine print that warns: “Improper use may result in serious injury or death due to asphyxiation, suffocation or drowning in one’s own fluid.”
Trudeau was uncertain about the inclusion of the use of towel as a spit hood in the use-of-force order, which all OPP officers must follow. Under cross-examination, Trudeau said there are currently no policies to guide officers on how they may support hospital staff in restraining custodial patients; he added that some direction about that would be useful.
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