Chad Allford

“The evidence in this inquest focused, in part, on police officers' response to concealment of drugs in the mouth. The officers were part of a team, acting on intelligence, to make a drug offence arrest. None of the officers concerned had received prior training in this regard. They employed various methods to try and control Mr [name redacted] and although each instructed Mr [name redacted] to spit the drugs out, none of them warned him of the risks to his life of not doing so. It was not clear that officers”