Bathurst, N.B., police officer charged with criminal harassment

A Bathurst, N.B., police has been charged with criminal harassment.

A Bathurst Police Force member has been charged with criminal harassment and uttering threats following a Serious Incident Response Team (SiRT) investigation into allegations that spanned nearly three years.

SiRT says it received the allegation from Bathurst police about an active member harassing a former intimate partner on May 27, 2025. They learned about two other related incidents a month later.

“Due to the nature of the allegations, SiRT requested the RCMP conduct the investigation for that incident, with SiRT providing oversight and review,” a news release from SiRT reads.

On Tuesday, Const. Nathan Pitre was charged with:

• criminal harassment
• breach of trust of a public office
• harassment by making repeated communications by way of telecommunication
• being unlawfully in a dwelling house
• uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm

The offences are alleged to have happened between Nov. 1, 2022 and May 26, 2025.

Pitre is scheduled to appear in Bathurst Provincial Court on June 29.

SiRT handles investigations involving death, intimate partner violence, sexual assault and serious injury that may have arisen from the actions of police officers in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

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