The Police and Community committee will begin reviewing police training procedures as it highlights four key areas of police policy to focus on. Committee members Karen Hiller, Sylvia Ortiz and Mike Padilla all agreed to review Topeka police’s use of force training, standard interactions and bias profiling, escalation and de-escalation tactics, and duty to intervene. Ortiz said these are the first four topics and is not the full scope of what the committee will review. “We have good officers, we have bad officers. We have good individuals, we have bad individuals,” said Ortiz, who also serves as the committee chair. “I am just tired of the back and forth and pointing of the finger… Let’s dig into this and see what the outcome is going to be.”
Source: Local Government – The Topeka Capital-Journal
