British Columbia’s police oversight agency says there are no grounds for criminal charges against four Mounties after a man’s arm was broken during an arrest on Vancouver Island.
However, the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. chastised the officers for refusing to co-operate with the agency’s investigators, saying in its decision Wednesday the Mounties breached their statutory duty to comply with the investigation, and caused “significant difficulty and delay” in the proceedings.
Investigators with the IIO were assigned to the case on Dec. 3, 2022, after members of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP got into an altercation with a driver during a roadside impairment check.
The local RCMP officers had stopped the suspect vehicle on the Trans-Canada Highway near Green Road shortly after 10 p.m. The driver told police he had consumed one glass of wine earlier in the night, and he was directed to pull over onto the side of the highway …