Alberta Serious Incident Response Team

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team is the civilian oversight agency in Alberta, Canada responsible for the investigation of incidents resulted in serious injury or death to any person, as well as serious or sensitive allegations of police misconduct.

The Executive Director heads the agency, and is responsible for reviewing all investigative reports and liaise with Crown Counsel, if there are reasonable grounds to determine an offense may have been committed, to determine whether charges will be laid against the subject officer.

ASIRT is a member of the Canadian Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (CACOLE).

[6] Further, ASIRT has on occasion investigated matters in Manitoba[7] and Newfoundland and Labrador,[8] at the request of the respective provincial governments.

[11] While all Canadian investigative oversight agency of the police investigate into incidents where serious harm or death as a result of police action, ASIRT has the additional mandate to investigate matters that are "Sensitive Allegations of Police Misconduct" - fraud, Breach of trust, sexual assault, aggravated assault by an officer or potential systemic racism and systemic corruption issues.