A New Westminster police officer has been arrested and charged in connection with an incident alleged to have occurred in Victoria in 2005.
Const. Sukhwinder Dosanjh faces one count of sexual assault. He was released on bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Aug. 17.
Dosanjh has been suspended from duty and will be subject to a parallel Police Act investigation.
New Westminster police said the Police Board “will be considering the conditions of his suspension from duty and the provisions of an unpaid suspension.”
Dosanjh is no stranger to controversy. He was one of two officers involved in a fatal shooting at a Burnaby gas station in Oct. 2006.
Daniel King was shot five times by two officers following a chase that saw King’s vehicle drive head-on into traffic. The shooting occurred after King produced an imitation pistol.
In 2007, Dosanjh was given an award of excellence by the Canadian Police Association for his role in the incident. A year later, a coroner’s inquest jury ruled the police shooting death of King was a homicide under the Coroners Act and recommended patrol cars be equipped with video and audio recording equipment.