N.S. news: Police Review Board makes decision on rape case [Video]

HALIFAX –

The Nova Scotia Police Review Board has concluded the conduct of Halifax officers in a controversial 2018 sexual assault case doesn’t warrant any broad changes in how the police force operates.

Carrie Low had brought a complaint against Const. Bojan Novakovic and the Halifax police for their handling of her May 19, 2018, sexual assault by at least two men in a suburb of the city.

Low’s complaints about the police response to her case included that her clothing wasn’t promptly collected and analyzed for DNA and that police did not send anyone quickly to the scene of her assault to retrieve and secure evidence.

However, the three members of the review board concluded in the March 11 decision: “We find nothing in the conduct of (the) Halifax Regional Police as a whole warrants intervention by the board.”

Novakovic was originally docked eight hours pay for not recording in a …