“The officer has to decide in a split second”: chief commissioner on the complexity of police actions after a shooting incident in Wezembeek-Oppem

“Officers do not fire to kill, but to stop.” This is what Chief Commissioner of the Federal Police Vico Cockx, and national coordinator of violence control, said in the aftermath of yesterday’s incident in Wezembeek-Oppem in which a police inspector used his service weapon against an aggressive young man and shot him. The chief explains what exactly the protocols are in violent situations and how serious the impact of such interventions is on officers.

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