Independent Investigations Office of B.C. wonders if training or policy changes needed in wake of Burnaby case
B.C.'s police watchdog won't be recommending charges after a person was found dead of an overdose while in custody, but it did raise concerns about how intoxicated prisoners are housed.
The report says that surveillance footage from the evening of March 6 and the morning of March 7 show AP being"restless for the first several hours," before settling down around 2:20 a.m. and sleeping for about four hours. The fourth officer went to the school and re-arrested her. On the ride back to the cells, she begged the officer to take her home or to the hospital. The officer refused, believing she"did not require medical assistance, and only wanted to go to the hospital to avoid going to jail." He did not inform the third officer – the jail supervisor – of their conversation.
She was put back into her cell at 2:08 p.m., where she laid down. Video footage showed her last visible movement at 3:18 p.m.RCMP policy is that prisoners need to be checked every 15 minutes, generally from outside the cell. A civilian jail guard did in-person checks at 3:31 p.m. for approximately three seconds, 3:45 p.m. for approximately 11 seconds and at 4 p.m. for approximately 10 seconds.
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