B.C.'s police watchdog says Mounties did not act negligently after a man died of acute alcohol withdrawal while in a jail cell on Vancouver Island last year.
Instead, Ronald J. MacDonald, director of the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. , says the incident highlights an "outdated" practice in the province's police and medical systems.In the early hours of April 23, 2022, a resident of Courtenay, B.C., called the IIO to report that a suspicious man was in their yard wielding a stick, according to the IIO.
Officers arrested the man for public intoxication and intended to take him to police holding cells and release him the next day once he had sobered up, according to the IIO. The jail was monitored by a civilian guard who was tasked with checking all of the building's prisoners four times per hour. The prisoners were also monitored on video surveillance.
"[The man] was an alcoholic who was seeking help to stop drinking at the time of his death," wrote McDonald.
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