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B.C. pressured to speed up involuntary treatment rollout after attack on VPD officer | Globalnews.ca

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A Vancouver police officer was slashed and seriously injured in the Downtown Eastside on Tuesday night .

Solaris Onatta Running Dey was convicted four years ago of strangling his girlfriend to death in 2018 .

Not long before the killing, he was hospitalized involuntarily with psychotic symptoms under B.C.’s Mental Health Act .

Dey would appear to be the ideal candidate for secure, involuntary treatment.

The BC Conservatives say the government is not moving quickly enough on the file.

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