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A training day that's deadly serious.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-APR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A training day that's deadly serious.(City/Region)(The public session allows community members to see how police handle incidents involving deadly force)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard

Your mission: a "welfare check" on a man reportedly suicidal over his wife's decision to end their marriage.

You knock on his door, identify yourself as a police officer, and hear distraught shouts coming from inside. You announce that you are coming in and walk up the stairs toward the sound of his voice. At the top of the stairs you see the man - Eugene police Sgt. Sam Kamkar playing the role in this training scenario - standing at the end of a dark hallway, holding something to his head. As your eyes adjust to the low light, you verify that the object is a gun.

With your own gun drawn but pointed down, you try to calm the man. You ask him to put down his weapon, telling him that he has friends who care...



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