A sexual assault case against an Edmonton police officer is finally moving forward after the complainant waited two years for answers.

A statement of claim says in August of 2023, the 25-year-old complainant was at a 7-Eleven on Edmonton’s south side when she first saw a marked EPS cruiser. She says that cruiser followed her before pulling her over.

According to the lawsuit, the officer said she was speeding and later when he saw her on the phone with her mother, she says he took the phone and told her mother he “would drive behind the plaintiff while she returned home to make sure she got home all right.”

Criminologist Dan Jones said that behaviour from an officer would be a red flag. “Him even driving her home, for what reason? There was no charge laid, she obviously wasn’t impaired,”

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