Date Published: 2018-04-23

Province: Nova Scotia

Police Agency: Cape Breton Regional Police

On March 31, 2018, at 3:29pm, a call was received by the Director from Supt. Paul Ross regarding a complaint of a domestic dispute involving a member of the Cape Breton Regional Police Service (“CBRPS”). The complaint came via a 911call made at 2:10pm by the Affected Party (“AP”) who indicated that she had been assaulted by the Subject Officer (“SO”). CBRPS officers including members of the FIS, attended the scene and began gathering evidence. The parties involved were advised that SiRT would be assuming control of the investigation. SiRT began its investigation later that day and completed it on Apri l 10, 2018. The SiRT investigator travelled to Sydney on April 1, 2018and obtained a statement from the AP that spanned one hour and forty minutes. In this statement, the AP stated that she and the SO argued and struggled over an iPad she was using which caused them both to fall to the ground. The AP indicated that the SO did not hit her. They were pulling and wrestling with each other. N…

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