WEYBURN — The Weyburn-Estevan police’s Joint Tactical Support Team held a training exercise in Weyburn on Friday morning, using the former building of Watson Distributors on New City Garden Road as the training location.
In the scenario, which the team members were not told about ahead of time, police responded to a call of a possible domestic situation, with a man yelling at a woman and dragging her into the building.
Two patrol members attended, and in the course of the scenario exercise, one was shot and the other was not able to rescue him. The Joint Tactical Support Team and negotiators were called as it was a hostage situation.
“They did save the shot officer and they were able to negotiate the female hostage out of the building, then they dealt with the armed suspect,” said Weyburn's Deputy Chief Shane St. John, in describing the scenario set up for the exercise.
“This is a joint exercise. We do work closely together as a single team, which is very beneficial to the citizens of Weyburn and Estevan,” said the deputy chief.
