Victoria Police Officer Committed Misconduct in Death of Woman Hit by Plastic Bullets: Hearing

A law enforcement officer puts up police tape at a crime scene in an undated file photograph. Samantha Laurey/AFP via Getty Images

A Victoria police officer has been found to have committed misconduct after firing plastic bullets into a smoky room that resulted in the death of a 43-year old woman.

Retired judge Wally Oppal made the ruling in a report for the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner (OPPC). He said that Sgt. Ron Kirkwood’s use of the plastic rounds against Lisa Rauch was “reckless and unnecessary.”