Manitoba’s police watchdog says it is investigating after receiving a report from a woman whose daughter was allegedly arrested by an off-duty RCMP officer in Brandon, Manitoba, after she participated in a doorbell prank.
The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba (IIU) says it is carrying out an investigation in connection with an incident involving an off-duty RCMP officer who allegedly chased and handcuffed a female youth after she engaged in a doorbell prank at his home.
The Brandon Police Service (BPS) was dispatched just after midnight on Oct. 19 to a residence in the zero block of Hawthorn Crescent in Brandon, where a woman reported that her daughter was brought home in handcuffs by a man, who was later identified as an off-duty RCMP officer, the IIU said in an Oct. 29 news release….