A team of eight investigators with Quebec’s Bureau of independent investigations (BEI) was deployed to Rawdon, Que., Sunday morning, after a 37-year-old man was seriously injured during a police pursuit involving the Sûreté du Québec overnight.
Preliminary reports indicate that a woman called 911 to tell officers that her former partner was going to commit suicide.
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The call was immediately transferred to provincial police.
On the way to the man’s residence, officers crossed paths with his vehicle.
According to police, a pursuit ensued and the man went off the road roughly three kilometres down the road.
He was rushed to a local-area hospital and was later transferred to a Montreal hospital after his condition deteriorated. Nonetheless, his injuries are not considered life-threatening.
The BEI is now tasked with determining the veracity of those reports.
As per protocol, the BEI is called in to investigate whenever a person is seriously injured, or dies, during a police intervention or while being detained by a police force.