The Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) has ruled Halifax Regional Police officers “acted appropriately” in a 2015 arrest that left a woman with fractures to her pelvis, back and wrist.
Police arrested a 25-year-old Fairview woman on July 10, 2015 after receiving a call from a resident on Evans Avenue who was in the hospital at the time. She wanted officers to remove unwanted people from her home.
Officers found the 25-year-old in the apartment when they arrived. She agreed to leave, but when police tried to arrest her for breach of a two-day-old court order, she ran away.
She lead police to an apartment on the next floor and locked the officers out. Police couldn’t get into the apartment.
An officer ran to the back of the building and found the woman on the ground, injured. Officers got medical assistance quickly, SiRT states.
In a statement to SiRT, the woman admitted to trying to flee from police and said that as police were trying to get into the apartment, she either jumped or fell out of the window.
The SiRT report states there are no grounds to consider any charges against the officers for their attempts to arrest the woman.
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