Jean-Pierre Brabant

By Joel Goldenberg
The Suburban

Officers in an SPVM car on Friday purposely collided with a vehicle on northbound Décarie Blvd. between Queen Mary and Isabella, to prevent the occupants’ escape, SPVM spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant told The Suburban,

The incident took place at around 2:35 p.m. and the area was blocked to traffic from around that time to 8:10 p.m. that evening. The Suburban saw a police car and a regular car being towed away at the end of the operation. There were no injuries as it was a minor collision.

Brabant said officers saw a vehicle without a license plate and attempted to pull the car over.

“The vehicle was stuck in traffic and later on, an officer went to the car and saw that the driver didn’t want to open the door or the window. From there, the officer went back to the police vehicle and had reason to believe the vehicle was about to leave because the light was about to turn green. The officer decided to collide with the vehicle to make sure it would not go anywhere.”

Brabant said the two male occupants of the vehicle ran off on foot, and thus were not arrested.

“A perimeter was then established, because of the collision done by the police. We closed the sector for a long time because we had the accident squad from our unit that went to do the investigation because it was a collision involving a police officer and we tried to locate the occupants of the vehicle.”