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A Winnipeg police officer in his 40s with 20 years of service was arrested and charged with multiple offenses including sexual assault and breaking and entering after a domestic incident on Wednesday night. West district patrol officers intervened when responding to a call about an intimate partner threat, observing the officer assaulting a woman inside her home. The victim received medical attention but it is unclear if she was hospitalized; the Winnipeg Police Service withheld the officer’s name to protect the victim's identity.
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A Winnipeg police officer, a 40-year-old man with 20 years of service at the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS), was arrested on Wednesday night following a domestic-related call. Upon arriving at the woman's home just after 10:18 p.m., responding officers observed him assaulting her inside. He faces multiple charges including sexual assault, assault by choking or strangling an intimate partner, breaking and entering to commit assault, and uttering threats of death or bodily harm against the victim. The WPS did not release his identity to protect the victim's privacy; she received medical attention at the scene but no further details on her condition were provided.
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A Winnipeg police officer is in custody after being arrested and charged with assaulting an intimate partner, the service said.
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The officer, a man in his 40s, has been with the Winnipeg Police Service (WPS) for 20 years, police said in a news release.
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He was arrested on Wednesday after west district patrol officers responded to a domestic-related call.
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The unnamed officer is accused of breaking into a woman’s home, threatening to kill her and assaulting her, police said.
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When WPS officers arrived at the woman’s home, shortly after 10:18 p.m., they allegedly observed the man assaulting her inside of the home.
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He was arrested at the scene and has since been charged with sexual assault, assault by choking, suffocating or strangling against intimate partner, overcome resistance by attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle another person, and breaking and entering to commit assault in a home.
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Two charges of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm were also laid.
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The man remains in police custody.
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WPS said it is not providing the officer’s name “to protect the identity of the victim.”
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She received medical attention at the scene.
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Police did not say whether she was transported to hospital.
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The Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba, the province’s police watchdog, has been notified of the allegations against the officer, according to WPS.
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