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Two Surrey Police Service officers who fatally shot someone at a halfway house earlier this year will not face charges, according to the Independent Investigations Office of B.C.

An IIO report released Thursday (Oct. 23) outlined how SPS officers responded to a report that an “affected person,” or AP, living at the halfway house — a residential facility for inmates on conditional release from the federal corrections system — was in breach of release conditions.

An arrest warrant had been issued, and police were advised the person had a history of self-harm and assaulting staff, and was flagged as a high-risk offender, the IIO report said.

After one officer knocked and called for the AP to come outside, there was no response, so someone on the facility’

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