Following two separate shootings by Codiac Regional RCMP officers in 2019, RCMP asked Nova Scotia's Serious Incident Response Team to investigate the officers' actions. The Nova Scotia agency said it couldn't release the findings and had submitted its reports to the RCMP. The independent team investigates serious incidents arising from police actions in Nova Scotia and decides whether charges are warranted against an officer. (Guillaume Aubut/Radio Canada)The sequence of events echoes what happened with the SIRT report into on the non-fatal shooting. After SIRT's report on that shooting was given to RCMP, the force told CBC to file an access to information request.

Source: CBC News May 18, 2021 09:00 UTC