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| The Independent Police Complaints Commission is to use its own staff to probe how a police support worker was shot in a firearms training session. | |
| The unnamed civilian employee was injured during a Thames Valley Police "firearms awareness training session" at Kidlington in Oxfordshire. | |
| The wounded man remained in a serious but stable condition in hospital after the incident on Wednesday afternoon. | |
| The IPCC was called in to investigate by Thames Valley Police. | |
| 'Criminal or disciplinary offences' | |
| IPCC commissioner Deborah Glass said: "I have decided that we should conduct an independent investigation, using our own investigators, to establish the circumstances of this incident. | |
| "The investigation will examine how live ammunition came to be present in a firearm during an awareness session, and consider whether any criminal or disciplinary offences have been committed." | |
| The awareness session is part of an induction for police support staff to provide them with basic firearms awareness. | |
| A Thames Valley Police spokesman said: "The session, held yesterday, was for call takers who have a key role to play to gaining information to assist in the force's spontaneous response to firearms incidents." | |
| The sessions - run by fully trained firearms officers - are held throughout the year usually on a six to eight week basis. |