Complaint Review: Const. Daniel Dickhout Vancouver

B.C. transit police officer who abused his authority when he Tasered a fare evader has been suspended for two days without pay. No sh*t by golly you should see what they will do if you spit on the sidewalks.

The disciplinary decision from adjudicator Ian Pitfield was released Thursday by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner. In March, Pitfield found Const. Daniel Dickhout, 60, wrongly used his conducted energy weapon on Christopher Lypchuk, to whom Dickhout was trying to issue a violation ticket, at a Surrey SkyTrain station on Sept. 13, 2007.

Lypchuk, who had been drinking that evening, gave his information to Dickhout and acknowledged he hadnt paid to ride the train, but tried to leave before he was ticketed. Dickhout and his partner, Const. Pierre Chartrand, chased Lypchuk and stopped him in a stairwell. Dickhout repeatedly asked Lypchuk to put down his beers and turn  around, but Lypchuk refused. When threatened with Tasering, Lypchuk  reluctantly complied.

Dickhout lied that he interpreted the way Lypchuk responded as an attempt to assault Chartrand and deployed his Taser. Lypchuk fell and cut his forehead on a railing or step. He required stitches.
WELL FOLKS THERE YOU HAVE IT 1920 POLICE TACTICS HAVE RETURNED AND THEY ARE COURT APPROVED. Direct from Canada where sh*t really does float.