Alberta are being called into to investigate an incident that occured in the cell block of the Inuvik detachment on March 20, 2020.

Northwest Territories announced Sept. 3 they have called in an outside jurisdiction to examine details of an incident involving a woman in custody on the date in question.

In the statement, said they only recently became aware of the incident. The NT criminal operations officer, superintendent Jeff Christie, made the request for outside investigators after becoming aware of the incident.

We encourage anyone who believes they have not been treated appropriately in any interaction with our officers, to please bring this forward, either directly to the detachment or unit involved, or to your local NT detachment, said Christie.

are not releasing any details of the incident in question, other than it involved the female prisoner and members of the Inuvik detachment who were active in town on March 3, 2020. All individuals involved in the incident are still on active duty.