wellness check

• Inquest to begin in N.B. police shooting of Indigenous woman during wellness check

  A coroner's jury will be chosen Monday morning, and five days have been set aside for the inquest.

  Canada

  May 15
  
• SIU investigating after Waterloo police officer shoots man during wellness check

  The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said a Waterloo Regional Police Service officer shot a 22-year-old man. The man was taken to hospital by ambulance with serious injuries.

  Crime

  Apr 23
  
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• Watchdog investigating police-involved shooting of man in crisis in Surrey, B.C.

  The victim was found inside a residence and was in possession of a weapon when "shots were fired by police." The man later died of his injuries in hospital.

  Crime

  Apr 8
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• OPP make arrest in connection with 2 suspicious deaths near Brussels, Ont.

  They say officers found a woman dead inside the home and the body of a man elsewhere on the property.

  Canada

  Apr 1
• Police, IIO investigating ‘sudden death’ of child in Victoria on Thursday

  Victoria police say the death came a day after officers had been called to perform a wellness check on the child and their parent.

  Crime

  Mar 26
• Kelowna, B.C. cop in disturbing wellness-check video intends to plead not guilty

  Const. Lacy Browning appeared in court this week via her lawyer, who indicated that there would be a not guilty plea entered in the future.

  News

  Jan 12
• RCMP cleared in Grand Forks death that followed wellness check

  There is no reason the officers could reasonably have foreseen the deterioration in the man’s health or that they conducted themselves in any way improperly.

  Crime

  Nov 18, 2021
• Man’s death prompts watchdog probe into Penticton RCMP wellness check

  The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. said at approximately 6 p.m., the man was found dead from an injury that appears to have been self-inflicted.

  Health

  Nov 5, 2021
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• Vancouver police officers who used ‘reckless’ force in 2016 wellness check to keep their badges

  In February, an adjudicator ruled the pair had recklessly used force during the 2016 call, which left a Vancouver man with serious injuries to his face and head.

  Crime

  Jun 11, 2021
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• No charges against New Brunswick police officer in death of Chantel Moore

  Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman from Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation in British Columbia, was shot and killed by an Edmundston police officer on June 4, 2020.

  Canada

  Jun 7, 2021