The province’s police watchdog agency is investigating an incident in Kamloops on the weekend that saw a man under arrest be taken to hospital in serious condition after being Tasered by officers.. . .
The IIO says an officer turned and followed the vehicle after finding it driving westbound in the eastbound lanes near the Annis Road exit.
A second officer deployed a spike belt to try to stop the vehicle, but the car “was able to avoid it,” according to the police watchdog.
A short time later the car hit a second vehicle, which caused a fire that officers were unable to extinguish. One person from the second vehicle was extricated and sent to hospital with serious injuries.
However, the driver and passenger in the suspect vehicle were not able to be extracted and were pronounced dead at the scene. Their names, and possible factors behind the accident, have not been made public.
Four of 55 reviews into police shootings completed in 2020; one officer charged
by Kelly Geraldine Malone and Meredith Omstead, The Canadian Press
Posted Dec 21, 2020 4:00 am EDT
Last Updated Dec 21, 2020 at 4:12 am EDT
Experts say it takes time to properly investigate a police shooting even when the public is calling for quick results but details on the outcome must be more transparent.
Of 55 police shootings that resulted in death or injury in Canada in the first 11 months of this year, four investigations were completed by Nov. 30.
One officer was charged.
Ontario’s police watchdog charged a Peel Regional Police officer in July in a shooting that injured Chantelle Krupka, a 34-year-old Black woman, on Mother’s Day. The officer, who has since resigned, faces charges of criminal negligence causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon and careless use of a firearm.
Published Monday, December 21, 2020 7:29AM EST Experts say it takes time to properly investigate a police shooting - even when the public is calling for quick results - but details on the outcome must be more transparent. Of 55 police shootings that resulted in death or injury in Canada in the first 11 months of this year, four investigations were completed by Nov. 30. One officer was charged. Ontario s police watchdog charged a Peel Regional Police officer in July in a shooting that injured Chantelle Krupka, a 34-year-old Black woman, on Mother s Day. The officer, who has since resigned, faces charges of criminal negligence causing bodily harm, assault with a weapon and careless use of a firearm.
Kelly Geraldine Malone and Meredith Omstead
Police tape cordons off a crime scene in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday April 9, 2015. Experts say it takes time to properly investigate a police shooting, even when the public is calling for quick results, but details on the outcome must be more transparent. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck December 21, 2020 - 1:00 AM
Experts say it takes time to properly investigate a police shooting â even when the public is calling for quick results â but details on the outcome must be more transparent.
Of 55 police shootings that resulted in death or injury in Canada in the first 11 months of this year, four investigations were completed by Nov. 30.