Investigation
Use of Force During Arrest
Date Published: 2014-12-03
Province: Nova Scotia
Police Agency: Halifax Regional Police
Summary
Shortly after midnight on July 2, 2014, two members of the Cape Breton Regional Police Service (CBRPS), Officers 1and 2, were seeking a suspect in a home invasion that was alleged to have occurred late on July 1in Sydney. The suspect, a 27 -year-old male, also the affected person (AP), was known to both officers. He was seen by the officers in downtown Sydney. When Officer 1attempted to stop him AP ran off. He eventually jumped a fence in a residential backyard, and injured his ankle. He was soon surrounded by Officers 1, 2and a third, Officer 3, and arrested. EHS attended and he was taken to hospital where his ankle was found to be broken. As a result of the serious injury, and in accordance with the Police Act, the CBRPS contacted SiRT the morning of July 2, 2014. Two SiRT investigators travelled to Sydney and later that day assumed the investigation into the arrest of AP and his injuries. The i nvestigation concluded on December 18, 2014. The matter had been substantially com…