News Items tag as: IIO

RCMP officer cleared by police watchdog after Chase teen's suicide attempt
March 24, 2021 - 12:56 PM

A police watchdog investigation has cleared a Chase RCMP officer of wrongdoing following a young Indigenous woman's suicide attempt just after speaking to him.
Mountie cleared in fatal shooting of distraught man near Salmon Arm
December 05, 2020 - 7:30 AM

The RCMP officer who fired four or five bullets into a man’s car north of Salmon Arm in January and killing the driver was protecting his own life, according to the Investigations Office of B.C.
B.C.'s RCMP watchdog called to Kelowna after injury to suspected bike thief
August 03, 2020 - 8:37 AM

B.C.'s police oversight agency has had its attention called to an incident in Kelowna where a suspected bike thief was injured by a police dog.
Man shot in Kelowna, police watchdog called in
December 22, 2019 - 2:35 PM

A man was shot in Kelowna and the RCMP watchdog has been called in.

A Central Okanagan Traffic Services officer was attempting to conduct a traffic stop on a dead-end roadway just after midnight on Dec. 22, a near Highland Drive and Glenmore Road in Kelowna.
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RCMP officer cleared by police watchdog after Chase teen's suicide attempt