Investigation
SiRT Concludes Investigation into Serious Injury in Miramichi
File Number: 2025-0124
Date Opened: 2025-10-27
Date Closed: 2026-04-16
Date Published: 2026-04-16
Province: New Brunswick
Police Agency: Miramichi
Status: Concluded
Summary
The Director of the Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) found no reasonable grounds to believe a member of the Miramichi Police Force (MPF) committed a criminal offence during an arrest.
On September 21, 2025, MPF received a call from an employee of a gas station in Miramichi regarding a customer who was parked at a gas pump and refusing to move her vehicle. The first officer on the scene spoke with the customer, an adult woman, who was refusing to move her vehicle or provide identification. She was not complying with the officer’s commands and started to roll up her window. The officer then opened her vehicle door, stated she was under arrest for obstruction and mischief and began to physically move her out of the vehicle. The woman resisted arrest and the officer, along with another who arrived on the scene, used force to remove her, secure handcuffs, and guide her to the police vehicle. After she was handcuffed, she was searched and guided by her left wrist into the police vehicle. At this time the woman claimed her wrist was broken and resisted getting into the police vehicle. The officers were able to get her inside the vehicle, and transported her to the Miramichi Detention Centre, where she was assessed by paramedics. She was ultimately admitted to hospital for other reasons and later diagnosed with a fractured wrist.