IIO Sends Another Case to Crown
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 @ 1:10 PM
Prince George, B.C.- The Chief Civilian Director of the Independent Investigations Office has referred a second case to Crown Counsel for consideration of possible charges.
This investigation involves an officer involved shooting that took place near Cranbrook in early October of last year.
Around 10 p.m. on October 2nd, an RCMP officer responded to a call about an alleged carjacking. According to the IIO “Three kilometres south of Cranbrook, the officer came into contact with the subject vehicle and its two occupants. At the conclusion of a police vehicular pursuit, the officer discharged his firearm. The adult male driver sustained non-life threatening injuries. He was taken into custody and was transported to hospital. The female passenger was uninjured and was taken into custody. The police officer was not injured.”
This is the second case in 8 days which the Chief Civilian Director has referred to Crown Counsel. On March 26th, a case that involved a man suffering facial injuries following an altercation in Creston October 6th of last year, was also sent to Crown for possible charge review.
The IIO has yet to release a determination in it’s first case, the shooting death of Greg Matters on a property on the east side of Prince George. That incident happened several hours after the IIO officially opened it’s office doors in Surrey in September of last year.
Comments
Sounds like the cop was doing his job. Are we supposed to let carjackers take our stuff and just stand there and let it happen? The issue here was the non-life threatening injuries.
Hang em’. It’ll teach em’ a lesson! I think it is biblical.
Don’t forget to give ’em a fair trial first. Then hang ’em.
Reminds me of a great skit George Carlin did on “Stuff”.
Many years ago they used to have public hangings, and people from miles around would come with their picnic baskets, and children, and spend the afternoon and watch the **hanging**.
Rather a strange way to be entertained..
I guess this guy didn’t have much respect for authority: bet he does now…When a cop screams at you to ‘stop or I’ll fire’ most intelligent people would pay attention. Good for the cop. Now some poet/art student/crown counsel gets to deide how much to torment the cop involved.
There is obviously some question as to whether the officer was justified in shooting the suspect. For all we know, the officer fired after the suspect surrendered. I have no idea what happened since I wasn’t there and no information has been released, but I bet that none of the people making snarky comments here do either. Maybe the officer was just doing his job; maybe not.
Agreed billposer. Apparently others could care less if the cop did something wrong or not. Apparently the IIO thinks he did or they wouldn’t have forwarded the file to crown.
Would be a shame if a cop did something wrong towards the other posters here and no one was there to see justice done, or would it?
Our police forces are not a gang of angels and need oversight, period.
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