IIO clears officers of wrongdoing in arrest of Saanich man experiencing mental health crisis

On Halloween morning in 2021, members of the Emergency Response Team apprehended a Saanich man who was experiencing a mental health crisis and had barricaded himself inside a home he shared with his parents for more than eight hours. During the apprehension, an officer deployed a Police Service Dog, which bit an area left of the man’s armpit, causing serious injuries that ultimately required surgery.

Sometime between 10:28 p.m. and 10:50 p.m., the first group of officers arrived on the scene and came up with a “surrender plan” that would see AP ordered out of the home “empty-handed with his hands up, and told to get down on the ground.” Between 11:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. Oct. 31, 2021, members of the Emergency Response Team made multiple attempts to detain AP that included deploying CS gas, using noise Flash Diversionary Device, discharging an Anti-Riot Weapon Enfield multiple times, and firing pepperballs.Then, at 7:50 a.m., AP could be “heard sobbing on the phone police had earlier dropped to him, raising concerns about his condition.

“AP turned away to his right with his hands out of sight and moving towards his waistband. [Witness Officer 7] said he heard [Subject Officer] shout multiple times that AP could be bitten by a police dog if he did not comply with police commands,” the report states.

Mental health crisis. Why shoot people, send dogs or attack people when their not well. There is a better way. This is not it.

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