City cop cleared of wrongdoing in club fracas
“No reasonable grounds” to find off-duty police officer working as bouncer at downtown bar committed crime when female patron sustained fractured wrist - SiRT director
A Fredericton police officer working as bar security last summer when a woman sustained a broken wrist in a fracas committed no crime and was acting in self-defence and defence of others, an investigation has found.
Rebecca Butler, the interim director of the Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT), issued a news release Thursday announcing she found “no reasonable grounds to believe that an off-duty officer of the Fredericton Police Force committed a criminal offence in connection with injuries sustained by a female.”
SiRT - a policing agency with offices in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick tasked with investigating police-involved deaths and injuries, as well as criminal complaints against police officers accused of such offences as sexual assault and intimate-partner violence - was asked to investigate an incident involving a woman who was hurt during an incident at the Twenty/20 Club in downtown Fredericton on June 16.