A Kamloops Mountie was acquitted of dangerous driving on Monday following at two week long B.C. Supreme Court trial.

It took a 12-person jury less than three hours of deliberations to render the not guilty verdict against Constable Christopher Squire. He was charged with dangerous driving following a Dec. 8, 2018 high-speed chase with a stolen truck on Westsyde Road.

Squire eventually used a PIT maneuver near Grasslands Boulevard which caused the truck to spin 180 degrees before coming to a stop leading to the arrest of the driver, who was injured.

“After reviewing the entirety of the evidence provided, the [BC Prosecution Service] concluded that the charge assessment standard had only been met for the single charge of dangerous driving against Const. Squire,” BC Prosecution Service spokesperson Dan McLaughlin said in June 2020.

Crown prosecutors were pursuing the dangerous driving charge based on the speeds involved in the chase before the use of the PIT maneuver as Squire was supposed to be using surveillance techniques, according to Kamloops This Week.

Kamloops RCMP Superintendent Jeff Pelley was in court Monday for the jury’s decision.

BC’s police watchdog investigated three officers following the crash, though Squire was the only officer who was charged back in 2020.