| crime and
punishment

ON Thursday, a
policeman was shot
in British Columbia.
Constable Brian
Lambie, a 14-year
member, was
responding to a sus-
picious persons call
_ from a pregnant

woman.
_ .- As he got out of his police
car, he was shot in the chest
-with a high-powered rifle...
‘Another police officer, cover-
’ “ing on the cali, put himself in
~ harm’s way to pull Lambie ©
into his vehicle and away
from inamediate danger.
“The saga began last
Monday night in a botched
holdup attempt of a video -
_Store'in Cranbrook. A.
“Bonnie. and Clyde” team
from Calgary held up *
Superior Video and ended up
in a wild high-speed chase

which ended in Marysville,
near Kimberley.

Numerous shots were
fired during the chase. The
two suspects ditched their
stolen car and eluded the
police search.

On Wednesday, they
approached the residence of
Leanne Campbell, a woman
eight days away from deliver-
ing her first child. Campbelt
refused to let them into her
house after they'd asked to
use her phone. Instead,
Campbell, suspecting they
were the suspects the police
were looking for, called 9-1-
!. While she was making the
phone call, the suspects broke
into the house and the piiwone
went dead.

Const. Lambie was dis-
patched to investigate. He
had barely got out of his car
when he was hit. Fortunately,
he was wearing a bullet-proof
vest which absorbed most of
the energy from the shot. The

_ bullet.pierced his vest and
entered his body. Equally for-
tunate for Lambie, he had a
partner willing to risk his life
to save that of his brother

Officer. -

“Ina emt irony, Const.
Lambie shouldn't have even
been in this position. .

He had already been trans-

_ ferred to the Commercial

_Crime Section in Vancouver,
where his most serious health
risk was a paper cut. Because
of the depressed economy of

that part of she Kootenays, he
couldn't sell his house to tke
his new position. He was,
essentially, sitting in limbo
waiting fora resolution to the
problem when he got the call
to the Campbell residence.

Such is the lot ofa police
officer, Every day the police
aire required to approach
houses, stand in front of
doors, stop vehicles and per-
form a myriad of duties with-
out knowing what awaits on
the other side.

In May of 1992, it was
just this dilemma which
resulted in the death of
Danny Possee,

He was shot by members
of the North Shore Drug
Squad who blindly entered
the house he was in with a
search warrant.

When the police entered,
Possee was plinking away

into the fireplace with a pellet

rifle. In that split second,
with a rifle in his hand, the
police fired. Danny Possee
was killed,

The tragic shooting of
Possee had its own cruel
irony. Danny Possee was an
innocent young man. He
wanted to be a police officer.
In 1989, while working as a.
security officer for Paladin
Security, he was twice cited

for exceptional performance.

The police were actually -

‘Jooking for Danny’s sister's

and her boyfriend. Danny
didn’t even live in the house

being raided.

The inquiry into the Possee
shooting hasn't answered any
of the lingering questions of
the Possee family.

Last week, the matter was
back in the news in a story
outlining the family concerns.

! can’t defend the police
in this incident, nor do 1 con-

Wednesday, June 5, 1996 ~ North Shore News ~ 14

between life and death

demn their actions.

Danny Possee was a
vibrant, intelligent young
man with a promising life in
front of him.

He was caught up in the
wrong place ai the wrong
time, innocently playing with
a pellet rifle in the worst pos-
sible coincidence.

The Possee family need to
see some closure on their per-
sonal tragedy. But so do the
police. The shooting of Const.
Lambie underlines the dan-
gers inherent in the lives of
those who strive to protect us.

A split second in time is,
all too often, the difference
beiween living and dying.

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