HALIFAX - The deadline has been pushed back for a report into the arrest and detention of a Nova Scotia woman who suffered a stroke in police custody and later died.
The provincial Justice Department says it has granted a request for a three-month extension from the independent investigator conducting the probe.
Nadine Cooper Mont says she wants to ensure her report into the death of Victoria Rose Paul is thorough.
It is now due on June 1.
Paul, a 44-year-old woman from Indian Brook, was arrested on Aug. 28, 2009, outside a Truro bar for public intoxication.
She had a stroke in jail and was taken the following day to a Halifax hospital, where she died on Sept. 5, 2009.
The investigation, announced last August, was expected to take about six months.
Justice Minister Ross Landry has said the investigation will determine whether Truro police followed appropriate guidelines and standards in handling Paul's case.
A previous review of the case by Halifax police found no wrongdoing. Landry has said his decision to proceed with an investigation under the Police Act was prompted by concerns expressed by Paul's family and the native community.
Mont is commissioner of the Nova Scotia Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner.
