{"id":12704,"date":"2019-10-28T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=12704"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T15:37:08","slug":"rcmp-refer-beaver-bank-assault-investigation-to-sirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=12704","title":{"rendered":"RCMP refer Beaver Bank assault investigation to SiRT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>BEAVER BANK:<\/strong>\n An alleged assault being investigated by Halifax District RCMP has been\n referred by the force to the Nova Scotia Serious Incident Response Team\n (SiRT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 27 at approximately 5:40 p.m., Halifax District RCMP responded to an incident at a home in Beaver Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During\n the preliminary investigation, police learned that an off-duty Halifax \nDistrict RCMP officer had allegedly assaulted a woman known to him. In \naccordance with the Police Act, RCMP contacted SiRT to assume the \ninvestigation into the assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The man was arrested by RCMP and turned over to SiRT investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is currently in custody and is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court on Oct. 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SiRT has identified the officer as Const. Darren Michael Simpson, 51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further allegations resulting from the incident are being investigated by the Halifax District RCMP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEAVER BANK: An alleged assault being investigated by Halifax District RCMP has been referred by the force to the Nova Scotia Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT). On October 27 at approximately 5:40 p.m., Halifax District RCMP responded to an incident at a home in Beaver Bank. During the preliminary investigation, police learned that an off-duty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10,14,854],"class_list":["post-12704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-beaver-bank","tag-rcmp","tag-sirt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}