Serious Incident Response Team

• N.B. Liberal leader says death of Indigenous man during wellness check ‘inexplicable’

  A New Brunswick First Nation is calling for a "thorough investigation" after an RCMP officer fatally shot an Indigenous man during a wellness check.

  Canada

  Sep 10
  
• Police watchdog investigating after N.B. Mountie fatally shoots Indigenous man

  New Brunswick's police oversight agency says an RCMP officer fatally shot an Indigenous man who the Mounties say was carrying weapons when he approached the pair on Sunday.

  Canada

  Sep 9
  
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• N.S. RCMP officer charged with three counts of sexual assault, uttering threats

  On Jan. 11, investigators with the RCMP contacted the provincial agency after a woman alleged she had been sexually assaulted by one of their off-duty officers in 2023. 

  Crime

  Jul 11
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• New Brunswick RCMP corporal charged with trying to solicit minor for sexual offence

  New Brunswick's police watchdog is investigating after an RCMP officer was charged with a sex crime involving a minor.

  Crime

  Jun 12
• N.B. RCMP officer allegedly took intimate images of man in custody: police watchdog

  The Serious Incident Response Team is investigating whether an on-duty RCMP officer in New Brunswick took intimate images of a man who was in custody. 

  Canada

  Feb 13
• N.S. police watchdog investigating after man shot by RCMP

  Nova Scotia's police watchdog is investigating after a man was injured in an RCMP shooting Sunday evening. Police say no one else was hurt.

  Canada

  Jan 2
• Red Earth Cree Nation man dead after police gunfire incident, SIRT investigating

  Carrot River RCMP responded to a gun call and officers and a man from Red Earth Cree Nation exchanged fire. The man was pronounced dead and RCMP and SIRT are investigating.

  Crime

  Dec 20, 2023
• Police watchdog investigating after 48-year-old man dies in Saint John, N.B. cell

  Police in Saint John, N.B., say a man has died in their custody after he was detailed for allegedly being intoxicated in public.

  Canada

  Dec 15, 2023
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• Halifax police officers who shot man armed with bow and arrow cleared of wrongdoing

  The Serious Incident Response Team says the two Halifax Regional Police officers were defending themselves from a perceived threat when they both fired their guns.

  Canada

  Dec 7, 2023
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• B.C. police watchdog backs out of investigation into Glen Assoun case in Nova Scotia

  Assoun, who died in June, spent nearly 17 years in prison for the murder of Brenda Way before a Nova Scotia Supreme Court decision in March 2019 overturned his conviction.

  Canada

  Nov 30, 2023