IIO called to Houston, B.C. after Mounties shoot boat theft suspect

British Columbia’s civilian police watchdog has been deployed to Houston, the place a person was shot by RCMP throughout an alleged boat heist.

Officers had been known as to reviews of a break-in and boat theft in progress round 3:40 a.m. Tuesday morning at a lodge in Topley Touchdown, about 50 kilometres between Houston and Burns Lake, in line with an RCMP media launch.

Police arrange on a bridge within the space in a bid to intercept the suspects, and finally noticed a automobile towing a ship believed to be the stolen vessel.

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“Police say that the automobile allegedly drove in direction of one in every of law enforcement officials who fired their service pistol.  The motive force of the automobile obtained a non-life threatening harm,” the RCMP media launch states.

“They had been taken by EHS to an space hospital for medical evaluation and cleared for police custody. Nobody else was injured.”

In its personal media launch, the Impartial Investigations Workplace (IIO) stated the suspect was shot within the wrist, and has since been discharged kind hospital.

The motive force and passenger had been each arrested, police stated.

Houston RCMP will conduct the legal investigation into the boat theft, whereas the IIO will likely be tasked with reviewing police conduct.

The IIO’s mandate is to analyze any interplay with police that ends in severe harm or demise to evaluate whether or not an officer might have dedicated an offence, no matter whether or not there may be allegation of wrongdoing.