VPD officer won't be charged in 2021 death of woman in jail cell

B.C.’s police watchdog says an officer who responded to a call of a suicidal woman who later died in a Vancouver jail cell may have failed in his duty to protect her from harm but will not face criminal charges.

The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) released a report detailing the May 1, 2021, incident on Wednesday.

The report, written by the IIO’s chief civilian director Ron MacDonald, says the woman called 911 just before 8 a.m. that morning, telling dispatchers she had been drinking and was considering suicide.

The woman — identified by the IIO only as the Affected Person, or AP — was not apprehended under the Mental Health Act because the responding officers

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