Nova Scotia’s police oversight body has exonerated two police officers in Annapolis Royal following accusations of plotting harm against a prominent individual in the region. The Serious Incident Response Team announced in a press release that its director, Erin Nauss, found no evidence to suggest that either officer had committed any criminal wrongdoing.
According to the SIRT report, two members of the Annapolis Royal Police Service were accused of meeting in May 2025 to discuss causing harm to a known individual, with one officer mentioning having a contact who could handle the task. The report does not disclose the identities of the officers or the targeted individual.
During their meeting at one of their residences, the officers reportedly agreed to keep their phones in a separate room to prevent any recording of their conversation. One of the officers told SIRT investigators that he participated in the discussion solely to gather evidence of the other officer’s potential corruption and had no intention of carrying out any harm.
Allegations also surfaced that one of the officers threatened to release a recording of their conversation unless the other officer assisted with a work-related issue. However, SIRT’s investigation failed to locate any such recording.
The matter came to light when one of the officers confided in a third colleague, who then filed a police report leading to the referral to SIRT in May 2026. The report mentioned that one of the officers was on leave during that period, while a witness expressed concerns about his well-being, noting that he had been hospitalized and sedated in May 2025.
Despite the conflicting accounts provided by the two officers during interviews with SIRT, the report concluded that there was no evidence indicating a concrete plan to harm the individual in question or any subsequent actions taken to execute such a plan.