Const. Gerry Rundel testifies Robert Dziekanski may have been frightened when the RCMP treated him as a threat. (CBC)

None of the four Mounties deployed to handle Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver's airport assessed the scene as taught in police training or spoke to witnesses before confronting the Polish man, a public inquiry heard Tuesday.

Const. Gerry Rundel testified at the inquiry into Dziekanski's death that he and the other three RCMP officers simply converged on Dziekanski and eventually stunned him with a police Taser.

Under cross examination by Walter Kosteckyj, the lawyer for Dziekanski's mother, Rundel told the inquiry that his RCMP training emphasized the importance of communication over force and the need to analyze a scene on arrival.

But Rundel said there simply wasn't enough time for any of that before Dziekanski was shocked at the airport's international arrival areas in the early morning of Oct. 14, 2007.

"Time did not allow that," said Rundel, the first of the four officers to testify at the inquiry. "Everything was happening very fast."

Dziekanski was immigrating to Canada from Poland and spoke little English. He died shortly after being stunned up to five times by the RCMP Taser. He had been wandering the airport for hours and became agitated after a series of communications breakdowns kept him in a controlled area.

No communication among Mounties

None of the officers said anything to each other from the time they were dispatched to the moment they walked toward Dziekanski, Rundel told the inquiry Tuesday during the second day of his testimony.

"I'm just curious as to why one of you didn't gather some information?" Kosteckyj asked Rundel. "Isn't that what we talked about with this integrated training and working in partnership and checking out the scene and all of that?"

"If the opportunity presented itself, that would have happened," Rundel replied.

Dziekanski was jolted up to five times with a Taser by RCMP officers during the takedown at the international arrivals area of Vancouver International Airport on Oct. 14, 2007. (Paul Pritchard)

Rundel had testified on Monday he feared for his own safety because Dziekanski was aggressive and combative. When the officers attempted to talk to Dziekanski in English, he reached towards his luggage but stopped when the officer in charge, Cpl. Monty Robinson, yelled him to stop, the inquiry heard Monday.

Rundel said Tuesday that Dziekanski may have been frightened when police considered him to be a threat and used the stun gun to subdue him.

"Do you think now in retrospect that this was a frightened man?" Kosteckyj said of Dziekanski.

"Well, now that I have had the opportunity to look back at the video prior to us arriving and information that has been since received, it's possible he was frightened, yes," Rundel answered.

Rundel, 48, who had two years experience as a policeman at the time, said he did not think Dziekanski was surrendering when he put his arms up and palms forward to the officers.

Rundel maintained that Dziekanski was fleeing and then became aggressive and combative when he turned around with a stapler in his hand.

He said that by walking away, Dziekanski was being resistant, and his training allowed the use of a Taser.

Dziekanski's hand motion disputable

But Kosteckyj challenged Rundel's interpretation of what Dziekanski was doing.

"In a lot of places in the world, a lot of people think that's the sign for surrender — hands up in the air, flat out — you didn't get the feeling that he was just stepping back because you were uncomfortable about him going to his bag?" Kosteckyj asked.

"Not at all," Rundel said. "He did not stand up, hands up and stand still."

Kosteckyj said the video, taken by a witness, shows the Mounties were quick to deploy the Taser and stunned Dziekanski without warning.

"I'm not aware of a warning," Rundel said.

The Crown announced in December that none of the Mounties will face criminal charges. The Crown said that while the officers contributed to Dziekanski's death, their use of force was reasonable in the circumstances.

The final report from inquiry commissioner Thomas Braidwood will reach far beyond the actions of the officers, examining the airport, the Canada Border Services Agency, first responders and others who encountered Dziekanski from the time his plane arrived until he died nearly 10 hours later.

Braidwood will make recommendations to prevent similar deaths, and he could make findings of misconduct against the officers or anyone else involved.

With files from the Canadian Press