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Alberta’s justice ministry will see a $65-million cut to operating expenses this year which the province says is due to continued modernization efforts.
The provincial budget released Thursday shows the ministry’s operating expense for 2021-22 is $1.3 billion, which is $65 million less than the forecasted expense for the 2020-21 budget.
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Blaise Boehmer, spokesman for Justice Minister Kaycee Madu, said the province is focusing on technology and updating processes to modernize services, such as those within the courts.
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An Edmonton police officer has been charged with sexually assaulting a female acquaintance.
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An Edmonton police officer has been charged with sexual assault. (Codie McLachlan/CBC)
An Edmonton police officer was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a female acquaintance.
Const. Samuel Sanson, 38, was arrested without incident and charged with one count of sexual assault, Alberta s police watchdog said in a news release.
The charge stems from a January incident, ASIRT said, where an off-duty police officer encountered an adult female acquaintance, and during that encounter committed a sexual assault.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team investigated the incident and forwarded its findings to the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service to determine whether the evidence was sufficient for prosecution.
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Alberta’s police watchdog has charged an Edmonton officer with sexual assault.
The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) charged the officer with the off-duty assault, saying in a news release Wednesday that they were first directed to investigate the allegations on Feb. 4. The he 38-year-old officer was charged Wednesday.
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ASIRT said the officer was off duty in the early afternoon of Jan. 20 when he encountered a female acquaintance. During that encounter the man is alleged to have sexually assaulted the woman. ASIRT said the evidence gathered in its investigation provided reasonable grounds that an offence had taken place.