The Newport police are responding to a viral Facebook video from the Newport St. Patrick's Day Parade

“At the weekend, the city of Newport organized an extremely successful parade in St. Patrick's Day. There were thousands of visitors who enjoy a world -class parade in a world -class city. The members of the Newport public security team began a large company to ensure that the residents and visitors were safe and enjoyed themselves during the event.

As we see at a big event, there are those people who are sick or injured, or do not behave appropriately under unhappy circumstances. It was with our police and our fire brigade to get together and to alleviate these few situations. As we know, video material often circulates on social media according to incidents that contain a physical interaction between the police and the members of the public. I would like to take this opportunity to deal with how our department processes such incidents, especially if they contain the use of violence.

First of all, I would like to recognize that two people who deal in a physical confrontation – especially one in which violence is used to control the actions of another – can be deeply worrying. It violates our fundamental feeling of courtesy, and I understand the emotional reaction that can cause this, especially if it takes place in our own community. Regardless of this, the effects of these situations can be shocking. If you know the people involved or if you have strong personal views of police work, these emotions can intensify.

As a police chief and director of public security, I would like to be very clear: I understand these emotional reactions and take them seriously. After any application of violence incidents, it is my responsibility to ensure that the measures taken by our officials match the legal standard of appropriateness and comply with the guidelines of our agency. I would like to make it absolutely clear that excessive violence is not tolerated by me or my team.

We ensure the professional use of violence through continuous training of our civil servants in the topic of de -escalation and the physical techniques that are involved in the arrest of a person. If violence is used, we will initiate a graded review process. This review of the force used during an incident is regardless of whether there is a complaint or not. It happens every time the police use violence. For our purposes, we define the “use of violence” on the whole – it includes any physical exertion or the use of power tools by civil servants to overcome the resistance or to protect the public and civil servants.

Immediately after the application of violence by the police authority, a police officer is asked to assess the circumstances of the situation and the violence used during the incident. This manager will then make a decision on the appropriateness of the strength and its compliance with politics. Regardless of the decision of the originally responding supervisor, a second review is initiated in the days after the incident of a supervisor who was assigned to our “Office for Security and Conflict Resolution”. The supervisor assigned in this office is our internal specialist expression for the professional use of violence and all the nuances that associated the use of violence examinations. This supervisor checks the use of violence a second time and also checks the decision of the first answering supervisor. Sometimes this second review has the advantage of additional information that may not be available during the first review. Under certain circumstances, violence can be checked by the Attorney General and a team of the state police.

Last weekend there were a number of incidents in which our officials used some kind of violence. Most of this use of violent incidents goes through the standard review process and is in various phases at this point. Although contributions to social issues can cause different emotion levels, remember that a situation is much more than what you can see in a short video clip. After the multi -stage review of the armed forces, which were used by police officers from Newport in the circulating video clip last weekend, I found that our police officers acted in accordance with the appropriateness of appropriateness in accordance with the guidelines of our department and without excess.

I hope that this explanation of our review process will bring a certain transparency about our departmental process and shows our commitment to our community. “