ASIRT charged-officers record — the accountability gap¶
Original source: https://www.alberta.ca/asirt-stats-charged-police-officers Retrieved: 2026-07-04
ASIRT (Alberta Serious Incident Response Team) investigates all serious-injury, death and sensitive-allegation incidents involving Alberta police. This is its public list of officers it has charged and the outcomes.
Officers charged per year — all Alberta agencies¶
| Year | Officers charged |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 4 |
| 2016 | 4 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2020 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 10 |
EPS-specific officers charged (and dispositions)¶
- Neil Thompson (charged 2025) — aggravated assault, CC 268, for a March 1, 2024 officer-involved shooting that wounded a man; before the courts (Feb 18, 2026). The rare case where a shooting produced a charge.
- Collin Smart (2024) — falsified records; pled guilty to breach of trust, conditional sentence.
- Alexander Doduk (2023) — assault with a weapon + assault causing bodily harm; found not guilty on both (June 11, 2025).
- Oli Olason (2022) — assault with a weapon + assault; found not guilty (May 9, 2025).
- Dustin Adsett (2022) — assault with a weapon + assault; acquitted (April 23, 2024).
- Michael Zacharuk (2022) — assault causing bodily harm; stay of proceedings (Nov 7, 2022).
- Samuel Samson (2021) — sexual assault; guilty, community sentence order.
- Stephen Fossen (2019) — sexual assault; withdrawn at victim's request.
- (Earlier: Fald 2018 obstruction/computer; Ahlstrom 2017 theft/breach of trust; Crane 2017 perjury withdrawn; Luimes 2013 dangerous driving causing death, acquitted; Wadden 2009 assault with weapon.)
The accountability gap¶
Set against the death toll — 39 people dead in EPS encounters since 2000, nine officer-involved shootings in 2024 alone (four fatal) — the charge record is thin, and thinner still on convictions. Fatal shootings are routinely cleared as "proportionate, necessary and reasonable" (see the Aug 14, 2024 clearance). The handful of EPS charges are mostly for assault, sexual assault, theft or perjury; of the use-of-force charges, most end in acquittal or stay. ASIRT investigations also run long (five to seven years is common). Note: yearly totals above are Alberta-wide, not EPS-only — keep that distinction.