Chief of Delta Police speaks out about court claims

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DELTA (NEWS1130) – Delta’s police chief is firing back after the province sued him and the force over a brutal bar fight that injured a former NHL player.
    
Police normally shy away from speaking on court issues, but Jim Cessford says he has to set the record straight on one claim the BC Health Ministry makes in its bid to get damages from Cessford, the force, and others after Garrett Burnett was attacked in late 2006 at Cheers Pub.

In court documents, the province says video surveillance and a hard drive seized after the assault were destroyed or lost.

Chief Jim Cessford says not true. “There was a disk destroyed but it was a copy of a disk.  We had a backup redundancy and we also had seized the original hard drive from the hotel.  So my concern is it might give the impression that we’re just kind of destroying evidence without thinking about what we’re doing…and that’s not the case.”

He says he can’t comment on the specific claims his officers didn’t call Burnett some help or do a good investigation. “I’m absolutely confident that our officers did a good job in this investigation and all of the investigations that they do.”

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