A coroner's jury is calling on the province to ensure police crisis negotiators have access to a qualified and resourced mental health worker during emergency calls.
After listening to seven days of testimony, the jury in the coroner s inquest into the police-involved shooting death of Barry Shantz deliberated for just over four hours before returning with its verdict and a pair of recommendations.
On the second to last day of a coroner s Inquest into the death of a man who calmly explained to police how he wanted them to kill him, the civilian director of the Independent Investigations Office took the stand to explain why his investigators did not interview key RCMP personnel involved in the man s death.
At the coroner s inquest into the death of a man killed by an RCMP sharpshooter following a six-hour standoff, jurors heard testimony from an advanced care paramedic.
On day three of the coroner s inquest into the death of 63-year-old Barry Shantz, the jury heard an on-call psychologist contracted by the RCMP didn t return a voicemail left by police until two weeks after the incident.