Independent Investigations Office

• Hearing finds VicPD officer committed misconduct in woman’s plastic bullet death

  Lisa Rauch was shot with a plastic bullet on Christmas Day 2019, and died four days later in hospital. The officer that fired the round committed misconduct, a hearing has ruled.

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  May 23, 2025
  
• Woman ‘holding a weapon next to a young child’ dead after being shot by police in Surrey

  A Surrey RCMP officer fatally shot a woman Thursday morning who police say was holding a weapon next to a young child.

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  Sep 19, 2024
  
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• Video shows fatal 2022 Vancouver shooting at hotel on DTES

  B.C.'s independent police watchdog (IIO) has forwarded a report to the prosecution service for consideration of charges against a VPD officer involved in the incident.

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  Sep 10, 2024
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• RCMP cleared in fatal fire and standoff at rural Langley, B.C. property

  Don Bennett died in a fire at a rural Langley property following a standoff with police in November, 2023.

  Crime

  May 30, 2024
• Vancouver police vehicle strikes and seriously injures pedestrian

  A man was seriously injured when he was struck by a police vehicle in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside not long after midnight on Tuesday.

  Crime

  May 22, 2024
• B.C.’s police watchdog investigates Lumby death

  The Independent Investigations Office case list indicates that an investigation into a Dec. 18, 2023 death is in progress, and little other information has been made available.  

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  May 16, 2024
• Family says probe into B.C. Mountie’s suicide has left no one accountable

  Const. Jasmine Thiara died by suicide on Richmond's Moray Bridge on Feb. 21, 2021, after texting a colleague that she was being bullied by a senior officer she was involved with.

  Crime

  May 6, 2024
• Charges possible for three Abbotsford officers in fatal 2022 crash

  The IIO has forwarded a report to Crown counsel that could result in charges against three Abbotsford police officers in relation to a 2022 crash that left two people dead.

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  Apr 16, 2024
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• Police watchdog probes Vancouver Island arrest after man hurt during standoff

  Police reported that when they arrived, the man resisted arrest, allegedly produced an unspecified weapon and barricaded himself inside the home.

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  Apr 9, 2024
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• Watchdog investigates after RCMP unable to find body near Parksville

  A hiker called police after spotting a man lying in the bushes, but when police arrived they couldn't find him. The same hiker found the same body the following day.

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  Mar 28, 2024