Queensland Police Chief Katarina Carrol has announced that
police officers in her state will no longer be using the move, and
it will be removed from the training manual, saying that options
have changed for officers to apply force in challenging and
life-threatening situations.
In Queensland, officers had been permitted to apply the
'chokehold' – its official name is the lateral
vascular neck restraint (LVNR) – in circumstances:
- Where an an incident is assessed as high risk and there is an
immediate operational necessity to apply the restraint; or
- When acting or aiding in
self-defence.
Chokehold,
banned, immediately.
Officers had been trained to apply the hold during a violent
struggle at the point of arrest.
