RCMP officer cleared in pursuit charges
Posted Oct 9, 2013 11:01:49 AM.
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HALIFAX – Nova Scotia’s police watchdog says there are no grounds for charges against an RCMP officer who was involved in a pursuit that ended in Shelburne County with a man suffering serious injuries.
The Serious Incident Response Team, known as SIRT, says the officer was watching for a truck on June 2 driven by a 37-year-old man who was accused of a domestic assault in Lunenburg.
The officer pursued his truck on Highway 103 to Granite Village where SIRT says the man drove toward a guardrail and the vehicle flipped, resulting in him fracturing his ribs and back.
The agency concluded the man intended to harm himself, but no one else.
During SIRT’s investigation, it says the man acknowledged the officer acted appropriately.
SIRT says there was nothing about the officer’s driving that was dangerous and it commended him for acting quickly to get medical attention for the injured man.
