Two more added to reported cases of sexual assault in taxis

“Upon further analysis, it was determined that there had been two additional incidents; one in 2012 and the other in 2015,” Halifax police said on Thursday.

Halifax police are now saying there were two more reported sexual assaults in taxis since 2012 than they had previously reported.

On Monday, police said there’d been 12 incidents reported since 2012.

A release from police on Thursday says, “Upon further analysis, it was determined that there had been two additional incidents; one in 2012 and the other in 2015.”

Halifax police are now saying there were two more reported sexual assaults in taxis since 2012 than they had previously reported.

According to Halifax Regional Police spokesperson Const. Alicia Joseph, the Crime Analysis Unit had to look at each sexual assault file and determine if a taxi cab or driver was involved.

“They were still looking at them and then realized that they had missed two,” said Joseph. “So, they’ve added them in and we’ve updated the public.”

The one added in 2012 means police now say there were three in that year. The added case, they said, was closed due to lack of solvability.

The case added in 2015 brings that year’s total to four cases. That one was closed due to a lack of solvability as well.

Joseph didn’t give a number of how many files were looked at, but she said it would have been “a significant amount” since 2012.