A dozen sexual assault cases in Kelowna, B.C., are being reinvestigating by the RCMP after they were originally deemed "unfounded," the detachment announced Thursday. A national RCMP Sexual Assault Review Team was tasked with looking over files from the Kelowna detachment after an unusually high rates of cases were being put aside as unfounded. Seventy cases of sexual assault were reported to the police in Kelowna in both 2017 and 2018 according to data from Statistics Canada. Of those 66 sexual assault cases that were revisited, 12 have been flagged for further investigation. The new numbers show the rate of unfounded sexual assault cases falls within the provincial average which hovers around 15 per cent, she said.

Source: CBC News February 28, 2020 05:48 UTC