Two Halifax police officers did not act with excessive force when a man was injured during an arrest in Dartmouth, according to the Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT).
During the night of Sept. 17, two officers were called to a business on Windmill Road when the alarm started going off. One officer found a man in the back of the office carrying a computer monitor.
SiRT said the man did not listen to the officer’s orders and stuck his hands in his hoodie and the waistband of his pants. In response, the officer kicked the man on his left side and the two struggled, SiRT said. The second officer entered the room and fired his taser at the man. The two then arrested him.
Because they used a taser and because the man appeared drunk, EHS took the man to a hospital, where health care workers determined he had a ruptured spleen and a lacerated kidney.
The case was reported to SiRT, and through the investigation they determined the officers did not use excessive force.
SiRT is responsible for investigating any police matters with a public interest, including those involving death or serious injury, and any officers accused of sexual assault or intimate partner violence.
