Investigation
High-Speed Police Pursuit Ends in Serious Crash
Date Published: 2019-10-05
Province: Nova Scotia
Police Agency: RCMP Antigonish
Summary
SiRT was contacted on June 29, 2019 by the Deputy Chief of the Amherst Police Department and advised of the arrest and subsequent hospitalization of an elderly male, the Affected Party (AP) earlier that day. Si RT agreed to conduct an investigation in order to determine whether any criminal of fence had been committed during the arrest and detention of the AP, leading to his hospitalization and subsequent death on June 30, 2019. The investigation commenced on June 29, 2019and was completed on August 29, 2019. The investigation consisted of a review of the Amherst Police Department’s Police Reporting and Occurrence System (PROS) file; Amherst Police radio communications; Amherst Police Department prisoner care facility video footage; medical reports of the AP; the Medical Examiner’s Office preliminary cause of death report; a forensic toxicologist report; the statements of four civilian witnesses; statements provided by the two Subject Officers (SO 1and SO2) and aW itness Officer (WO). F…