Selwyn_Times: July 13, 2022

Wednesday July 13 2022 Selwyn Times
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‘I was thinking: ‘There’s a good
likelihood we’re going to die’
Selwyn-based
senior constables
Jim Manning and
Scott Carmody
spoke to police
magazine Ten
One about how
they captured the
mosque terrorist
MANNING AND Carmody
were on a routine tactical training
exercise at The Princess Margaret
Hospital in Cashmere – which
included armed offender and
room clearance exercises – on
March 15, 2019, when the news
broke.
There was shooting, there were
dead and injured people in Deans
Ave. The training was declared
complete and all staff were told to
deploy.
Manning and Carmody
decided to stick together. They
had known each other for 20-
plus years, having played rugby
together back in the day. They
had hardly ever worked together
– with Manning based at Lincoln
and Carmody at Arthur’s Pass –
but each knew the other was a
good man for a crisis.
They each retrieved their
rifle, handgun and Taser, put
on ballistic armour, then set off
toward the city in Manning’s car.
As he drove, Carmody monitored
the car radio, hearing reports of
multiple casualties and multiple
offenders at the Al-Noor
Mosque.
Shots were reported at the
hospital, but experience told them
to look elsewhere – Deans Ave
was covered and the offenders
weren’t there; the hospital alert
probably arose from injured
people arriving there.
“I was thinking some poor
New Brighton community cop is
going to be pulling up these guys
BRAVE: Senior Constables Jim Manning and Scott Carmody.
and he’s not going to be armed,”
Manning told police magazine
Ten One.
“We need to go wide because
we need to be where the police
guns aren’t.”
As they drove east on
Brougham St, the radio reported
an offender’s vehicle – a Subaru,
registration number KSH 90 –
heading east on Bealey Ave, on
a parallel course to theirs. There
were reports of a gunman on foot
in Linwood, and shots fired from
a car.
Then there it was – a Subaru,
bullet holes in the windscreen,
hazard lights flashing – coming
through a red light in the
opposite direction.
Manning performed a U-turn.
They had to stop the car, whatever
the cost.
“I was thinking: ‘There’s a good
likelihood we’re going to die’,”
Manning said.
“But I remember looking across
at Scotty and thinking: ‘This guy’s
got it, I’ve got it, we’ve got it, this
is us’.
“It’s like we were heading down
the Valley of Death and my brain
said: ‘Fear’s no good to you, mate.
Turn that off and deal with what’s
in front of you and you’ll stay
alive’.”
Said Carmody: “I think it’s the
way police are wired.
“You have to do something.
PHOTO: NZ POLICE
Doing nothing is much harder
than doing something, even if
the something is not something
you would necessarily choose.”
The Subaru was weaving in and
out of the traffic.
Manning and Carmody closed
on it, certain that at any moment
one of the multiple people they
thought was inside would start
shooting.
Carmody, with his rifle, was
ready to respond.
“I kept telling myself: ‘When
the windscreen shatters, don’t
stop’,” Manning told Ten One.
“Keep driving, Scotty will know
what to do. Whatever happens,
he’ll be there.”
After a few minutes a break in
‘So I reversed my weapon
and struck him with the
butt, with the intention
of rendering him
unconscious’
– Scott Carmody
the traffic exposed the Subaru in
the left-hand lane.
“We’re going in,” said Manning.
He floored the accelerator and
angled the police car into the
Subaru driver’s door, aiming to
incapacitate the driver.
Manning says he had noticed
at crash scenes that when a
vehicle hits another at a certain
angle, the airbag does not deploy.
He now put that to the test,
hoping to give Carmody a clean
exit. It worked.
Carmody, who has long
experience of Protection Services
work and has trained in exiting a
moving vehicle, was out of the car
before it had stopped. He circled
the offender’s vehicle and was
surprised to find it contained just
the driver.
Manning got out, Glock in
hand, into what he thought
would be a firefight. But when
he saw Carmody with his rifle
trained on the driver, he realised
there must be only one offender
present.
There were firearms in the
vehicle – they had been across
the driver’s lap, ready for use,
until the impact dislodged them.
However, they were still within
his reach. He also had a longbladed
knife attached to his vest.
Carmody called for Manning
to enter the vehicle from behind
and handcuff the driver with his
hands up. Manning went around
and opened the hatchback and
saw what appeared to be four
improvised incendiary devices –
petrol cans with objects taped to
them.
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