Investigation
Serious Injury Investigation
Date Published: 2018-01-10
Province: Nova Scotia
Police Agency: RCMP Port Hawkesbury
Summary
On August 25, 2017, SiRT received a complaint from the District Commander for the RCMP Northeast Nova District. The complaint was in relation to a young woman (17-year-old) suffering a broken ankle after her arrest on August 23, 2017from a residence on the Waycobah First Nation Reserve. As a result of the injury, SiRT began an investigation into the circumstances of AP’s arrest. The investigation concluded on November 6, 2017. The investigation revealed that the Affected Party (AP) had been drinking heavily on the evening of August 23with another family member at a residence on the Reserve. The home owner called the police to have both the AP and her relative removed from the residence as the home owner feared the AP was going to get into an altercation with another party in the residence who was seeking alcohol from the bottle belonging to AP. Upon the arrival of the RCMP officers, the Subject Officer, arrested AP for breach of the peace and, under the Involuntary Psychiatric Tr…