Charges laid against former correctional officer at North Fraser pretrial centre

October 24, 2025

RED FM News Desk

Coquitlam RCMP has announced that charges have been laid against a former Correctional Officer who was previously employed at the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam.

The charges follow a Breach of Trust investigation that police launched in September 2022. On October 15, the BC Prosecution Service approved two counts of Breach of Trust against Ramandeep Rai of Abbotsford.

According to the RCMP, the first alleged offense occurred between July 14, 2022, and September 29, 2022, and the second occurred between September 11 and September 29, 2022.

The Coquitlam RCMP declined to provide further details regarding the nature of the charges, but they clarified that the investigation and charges are unrelated to the escape of high-profile fugitive Rabih Alkhalil. Alkhalil had broken out of the North Fraser Pretrial Centre in July 2022 and was arrested in Qatar last month.