Kelowna RCMP announced Friday that Supt. WATCH | A Mountie arrives on the scene and sprints toward his fellow officers and the suspect:This video of an arrest by Kelowna RCMP has resulted in an internal investigation into the officer's actions. 0:15Criticism concerning sexual assault casesThe recent video incident is not the first time the Kelowna RCMP have been in the spotlight concerning the force's conduct. Last fall, Statistics Canada released numbers showing that 40 per cent of sexual assault cases reported to Kelowna RCMP were dismissed as unfounded — three times the national average. A national RCMP Sexual Assault Review Team investigated and recently determined there was an underlying clerical error in how the cases were being classified that skewed the statistics, which actually fall more in line with provincial and national averages.

Source: CBC News June 05, 2020 17:37 UTC