Police watchdog investigates injury caused by police dog bite
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. is investigation after a man was injured after being bitten by a police dog in Kelowna.
On August 1, 2020, shortly after 10 p.m., an officer in a marked police car was flagged down by a victim who reported someone had just stolen his E-Bike (battery assisted mountain bike) in Kelowna.
The suspect allegedly made attempts to evade police, and rode to a well-known pedestrian and bike trail known as the “Rail Trail”.
A Police Dog Service (PDS) officer was deployed to the area of the Rail Trail to conduct containment with his police dog, and saw the suspect riding an E-Bike towards him.