A West Vancouver family has filed official police complaints about an incident that happened during a minor hockey game at Hollyburn Country Club, alleging an off-duty RCMP officer punched a 14-year-old player in the head, and that it was not investigated properly by the West Vancouver Police Department.

One of those complaints, about the West Vancouver Police investigation, has subsequently been dismissed, but the other complaint has been accepted.

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Mike Rogers, grandfather of the teenage hockey player, filed complaints with both the RCMP’s Civilian Review and Complaints Commission and the B.C. Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner over the way he says his grandson Jordan was “sucker punched” by a parent from the opposite team, an off-duty RCMP officer from Surrey, during an off-ice altercation.

“My grandson is adamant that he was the one who hit him,” said Rogers, who said Jordan was shaken up and suffered bruises and cuts to his face as a result.

“The off-duty RCMP officer cold-cocked my grandson who is 14 and a half,” he said.

Rogers said West Vancouver Police spoke to his grandson and he told them what happened, but so far there have been no moves to charge the off-duty officer, although the investigation into what happened at Hollyburn remains open.

So far the only person charged has been Rogers’ son-in-law, Christian Jarvis — who is the 45-year-old father of the teen he says was sucker-punched —after he grabbed the shirt of the RCMP officer’s father during a separate scuffle at the game.

Crown counsel has now determined that case will be diverted, meaning Jarvis likely won’t be left with a criminal record or make further court appearances.

Rogers says he doesn’t condone the actions of his son-in-law.

But he says he still thinks what happened to his grandson is wrong.

The police complaints are the latest fallout from a minor hockey game gone wrong at the private club on March 6.

The Hollyburn Huskies AAA bantam team was facing a visiting Semiahmoo team at the club when a brawl broke out between the 13- and 14-year-olds on the ice.

“The game was completely out of control,” said Vanessa Jarvis, Jordan’s mother.

Upstairs in the viewing room, verbal sparring between parents also allegedly turned physical when Christian Jarvis grabbed an older man by the shirt and shook him.

But Rogers said what happened next is more shocking.

His grandson, who had been ejected from the game and had gone to see what the fight among the adult spectators was about, was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and punched in the head by the off-duty officer, Rogers alleges.

Since then, Rogers said he’s heard from other parents at the game who witnessed the punch. But those people are afraid to speak publicly and have so far refused to talk to police, he said, for fear of harming their standing in the hockey community.

“I think it’s a display of cowardice,” said Rogers. “You put your own self-interest against speaking up about an assault on a minor.”

Cam Barker, a friend of the Jarvis family, said he had just stopped to watch the game when the fight in the upstairs viewing area broke out.

Barker said he did not see any punch being thrown, but he saw the off-duty officer holding Jordan by the scruff of the neck by one hand with his other hand cocked in a fist.

“I stepped in front of him and said, ‘Dude, you’re about to hit a 14-year-old kid,’” said Barker.

He said at that point, the man immediately dropped his hands.

Barker said he gave a statement to the West Vancouver Police about what he saw. But Rogers said so far, nothing has come of that.

Rogers said according to those he’s talked to, as soon as the West Vancouver Police arrived at the game, “The RCMP officer pulled out his badge and basically took control of things.”

“It smells of police protecting police,” he said.

So far, however, authorities don’t agree.

A complaint filed by Rogers with the Office of Police Complaint Commissioner about the way West Vancouver police conducted the investigation was recently ruled inadmissible.

An investigator with that office told Rogers in an email this week, “Based on our analysis we did not see any conduct that would meet the threshold of misconduct under the Police Act.”

The RCMP complaint against the off-duty officer himself has been accepted, said Rogers.

West Vancouver Police department spokesman Const. Jeff Palmer said the department is aware of the complaints, but refused to comment on the issue, saying that would be inappropriate.

“Obviously people have the right to express concerns in the form of a complaint,” he said.

Sgt. Rob Vermeulen, spokesman for the RCMP’s E Division B.C. headquarters, said the RCMP is aware of the complaint but would not comment on it.