POLICE RAID ANGERS FATHER

A Calgary father is angry heavily-armed Tac-Team officers stormed a city
house as a group of daycare children played outside next door.

About 10 officers, armed with various weapons, rushed a house at 10 Ave.
and 25 St. S.E. yesterday about 9 a.m. as part of a drug bust.

"The kids are just freaked," said Tim Florence, 39, whose two-and-a-half
year old daughter attends Jan-Pat Dayhomes next door to where the raid took
place. "They're all shaken and scared."

There were five kids, ages 1 to 4, at the home when the incident took
place, said Florence.

"The police should have notified the centre, letting them know they were
coming so they could get the kids inside."

However, police said in these type of situations, it just isn't possible to
warn the public.

"But with the way these people operate, it's not feasible," said Sgt. Rick
Demchuk, of the TAC team. "Unfortunately, we just can't give notice."

Demchuk said he would talk to the daycare about the situation and see if it
was possible for some TAC team members to go visit the kids.

"It would be nice to explain to them who we are and what we do," he said.
"We can have a big impact on kids' lives."

There was no one home at the time of the police raid.