7-Day Suspension for Victoria Officer Who Killed Woman with Anti-Riot Weapon

7-day suspension for Victoria officer who killed woman with anti-riot weapon

A Victoria police sergeant has been handed a seven-day suspension without pay for killing a woman by firing plastic bullets into a smoke-filled room.

Family satisfied with VicPD officer’s seven-day suspension for woman’s death

Officer Ron Kirkwood was suspended without pay after adjudicator Wally Oppal determined he committed misconduct when he fired an anti-riot weapon into a smoke-filled room, fatally injuring Lisa Rauch.

Victoria officer gets 7-day suspension over death of woman hit by anti-riot rounds

VICTORIA — A Victoria police officer who was found to have made a serious error in judgment when he fired an anti-riot weapon into a smoke-filled room in 2019, hitting a woman in the head and killing her, has been handed a seven-day suspension withou

Victoria police officer to get 7-day suspension after death of woman

In a public hearing ordered by the police complaint commissioner, retired judge Wally Oppal ruled Sergeant Ron Kirkwood should be suspended without pay for seven days for shooting plastic bullets at Lisa Rauch in 2019. Rauch was hit in the head and died a few days later. Oppal also made several recommendations to the Victoria Police Department.

VicPD officer handed seven-day unpaid suspension for death of Lisa Rauch

A seven-day unpaid suspension has been issued to a VicPD officer who shot a woman with ‘less-lethal’ (ARWEN) rounds while she was suffering a mental health crisis.

Police officer suspended 7 days with no pay for 2019 death of Victoria woman

Lisa Rauch died after being struck in the back of the head with a round from an anti-riot weapon on Christmas Day 2019