No charges against B.C. cops, paramedics for not calling Children’s Ministry

Dec 6, 2016 | 1:37 PM

VICTORIA — British Columbia’s criminal justice branch says no charges have been approved against Delta police officers and paramedics who failed to file a report with the Children’s Ministry about a child in need of protection.

The Criminal Justice Branch says in a release that the RCMP investigated and submitted an opinion recommending charges of failing to file the report in a case involving 17-year-old Paige Gauchier.

The branch says a review of the available evidence suggests there is no substantial likelihood that the officers or paramedics would be convicted of the offence involving an incident on Jan. 22, 2011.

The branch says Gauchier was intoxicated and had a bleeding nose when she walked into a gas station in Delta at 2 a.m. and said she’d been assaulted by six girls but refused to go to hospital on the recommendation of paramedics.