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Suspect identified in theft from hotel
Columbia Valley RCMP Report
By S/Sgt. Marko Shehovac
At 1 p.m. on Jan. 8, Columbia Valley RCMP Detachment received a complaint of theft of money from the Best Western Hotel in Invermere. A suspect has been identified and the investigation is continuing.
Marble Canyon crash
At 12:50 p.m. on Jan. 9, Columbia Valley Detachment responded to a two-vehicle accident at Marble Canyon in Kootenay National Park. A 2007 Dodge van driven by a 37-year-old male from Salmon Arm was south bound and slowed to turn left into the Marble Canyon parking lot. A vehicle directly behind the van slowed, realizing it was turning. A third vehicle, a 2008 Kenworth dump truck driven by a 64-year-old male from Cochrane, Alta. was also south bound and proceeded to pass both vehicles.
Realizing that a van was turning left, the driver of the dump truck attempted to avoid a T-bone collision but the left wheel of the truck struck the van turning left. The driver and the passenger in the van received minor injuries. The driver of the dump truck was charged under the Motor Vehicle act for pass on left unsafely.
Mischief in the Flats
Columbia Valley Detachment members responded to a 1 a.m. domestic disturbance on Emerald Avenue in Canal Flats on Jan. 10. When police arrived at the scene a 35-year-old male fled the residence. The male was located and found to be intoxicated. The male was arrested for mischief, lodged in cells and released when sober the next morning.
Agitated fallen drinker calmed and treated
At 8:20 a.m. on Jan. 10, Columbia Valley Detachment was called to assist with a minor disturbance outside the Invermere and District Hospital. An agitated male who had been drinking had fallen to the ground resulting in facial injuries causing some bleeding. The male was venting a great deal of frustration and had to be calmed down by the attending officer. Once calmed down the officer attended inside with the 24-year-old male from Alberta and remained until a doctor was able to attend to him. Once being treated the male was co-operative with staff and police were no longer required to remain.
Criminal record checks
Due to a number of jobs that require criminal record checks as well as criminal record checks required to be completed in order to volunteer to work with vulnerable sectors, which include the elderly and children, the staff working the counter at the Detachment are quite busy completing these checks which take up time.
Our frustration is that at the detachment we are sitting on approximately 50 criminal record checks that have not been picked up. We recognize the urgency to get them done so many can carry on with their application; however, we are questioning the lack of urgency to attend back to the detachment to pick up the completed records check. If you have outstanding criminal record checks to pick up please come in and pick them up.
Solid red light at intersection
I was approached over the holiday season by a young girl preparing to write her driver’s licence exam and she relayed a question that her brother thought was the right answer when he wrote the exam, but it was marked wrong.
The question put to me was ‘can you turn left on a sold red light at an intersection?’ My immediate response was no. She indicated her brother marked no or false and it was scored as wrong.
This wrong had to be corrected and I promised to follow up. So, with the help of Lambert Insurance I was able to speak to the examiner. I realized from my discussion with the examiner that I made the same mistake (please realize this is hard for me to admit) as some people have by not reading the question properly. When the question was posed to me I was thinking your normal two-way traffic intersection. You can’t turn left on a solid red light in that instance. I realized that the question on the exam may be referring to a sold red light onto a one-way street. When safe and no signs indicating it is prohibited you indeed can turn left onto a one-way street on a solid red light.
So Chelsey, I admit to being wrong given my interpretation of the question posed to me. And also know that many smart officers here have tried many times to prove me wrong for over five years without success and you just got me to admit in public that I was wrong here.
Good luck to all writing the exam and watch for that question.
