“Investigators remain on scene and continue to search the home.”
Clark noted the Southeast District Emergency Response Team (ERT) was called in to assist last night due to a “perceived risk to public and police safety.”
The RCMP’s Explosive Disposal Unit will be on scene today to dispose of an undetonated RCMP distractionary device – likely a flashbang or a smoke grenade – that was used during last night’s police operation.
“The device is safely contained and it poses no risk to the public,” Clark said. “It didn’t detonate last night.”
“The vehicle you’re likely taking about was probably our tactical armoured vehicle,” Clark said, when asked about a video making the rounds on Facebook showing a police vehicle with what appeared to be a lengthy battering ram attachment. “Its used for the safety of the officers responding.”
“The ERT deal with higher risk calls typically where firearms or threats to police occur and so they have an attachment on the front of their vehicle to allow them to make entry into residences and things like that.”
While a number of roads around Halston and 12th were briefly closed last night as a precaution, police told CFJC that road closures aren’t expected to be required today.
“We’ll be on scene until we’re done essentially,” Clark added. “Officers are searching that residence as part of the investigation so that could take hours if not days.”
He noted more information may be released further as the investigation proceeds.