Standoff
policing
cost huge

Service
award
goes to
brave
WV cop

FOR THE second year in a

vow, West Vancouver Police
Cpl. Dick Clancy has been
honored for outstanding police
service by the provincial gov-
ernment.

By Anna Marie D ‘Angelo
Nows Reporter

“They. asked me iff wanted to
go for a hat trick and. told them
no,” said Clancy, a 25-yenr’ West
Vancouver Police veteran.”

On Sept. 23, 1994, Clancy, 47,
had just tinished paying bis bill ata
packed White Spot restaurant. on
Maritie Drive and was getting into
his unmarked police car when he

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spotted ‘a’ distraught. man armed ~

with a rifle.

The mun, Bob Adams,’ 48,
dressed in battle fatigues and wear-
ing camouflage paint, was sweating
profusely as he walked to. the
restaurant door.

Clancy. was behind the man
when - Adams racked: two five:

rounds into the .303 rifle.

Clancy's portable, radio came

alive, A dispatcher announced that a
man with a gun had been observed
‘near the CIBC bank at Park. Royal’ s
south mall.
Adams heard Clancy's radio and
spun around, directly ‘facing the

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police corporal. His rifle was point-

ing forward and_to his left. Clancy
said he got a goad look at the rifle's
barrel.

Instead of pulling out his gun, as
police, training prescribes, Clancy
._ kept his gun in its holster. His gut
- reaction to keep his gun put likely
prevented (a deadly incident,
according to many police sources,
“There were at least 200 people
within shooting range - of ithe
deranged man.

Clancy found himself using mil-
itary jargon he remembered from
war movies to order the man to dis-

arm. The delusional. man told the -

police corporal that he believed his
commanding officer had been killed
- and they had been betrayed.
-A-subsequent search of. the
man’s Woodcroft “apartment pro-
duced five rifles, one of which was
loaded, a.loaded 9 mni-semti-auto-
_ Matic. handgun, two. bayonets and
several dozen: rounds of ammuni-

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