The Independent Investigations Office is asking prosecutors to consider charges against a Vancouver Police officer whose vehicle hit a pedestrian in the city’s Eastside last year.
It says in a statement that the officer was responding to a call on the evening of Sept. 29 when his vehicle hit the woman on Commercial Drive.
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It says she was treated by firefighters at the scene, but got medical treatment on her own.
The civilian-led police watchdog says the VPD reported the woman’s injury to the office a month later, and investigators concluded it met the threshold of “serious harm” under the provincial Police Act.
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The statement says the police officer “may have committed an offence in relation to the use of their police vehicle” and it has filed a report with the BC Prosecution Service for possible charges.
It says charges will only be approved if prosecutors decide there’s a “substantial likelihood of conviction” and if the charges are in the public interest.
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