What is the test for reasonable and probable grounds for a police officer to use a Taser?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Quartey v. Peel Regional Police Services Board, 2012 ONSC 2260 (CanLII):
For reasonable and probable grounds the police officer must subjectively believe that he has such grounds and those grounds must also be justifiable from an objective point of view. Storrey v. R., 1990 CanLII 125 (SCC), [1990] 1 S.C.R. 241 at para. 17.
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