Vanderhoof officers not culpable in failed search for Indigenous woman

B.C.’s police watchdog has found that members of the Vanderhoof RCMP were not criminally responsible after a “vulnerable” Indigenous woman went missing in October 2023 and was found dead on Nov. 5 of that year.
The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) was tasked with deciding whether the RCMP could have done more to find the woman who went missing Oct. 11, 2023, more than three weeks before her body was found in thick bushes just 700 metres from where she was last se