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A city police investigation into the suicide death of one of its officers — witnessed by colleagues — raised questions from a provincial watchdog and the CPS itself, a fatality inquiry heard Monday.

And in text messages written just before she took her life, the officer said she couldn’t live with the stigma she’d face among other officers if she’d survived the incident.

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Early in the morning of April 2, 2016, an off-duty Const. Britni Joyal, 27, fatally shot herself in her car that she’d parked at the provincial medical examiner’s office in northwest Calgary.

At the end of a two-hour standoff, those negotiating with Joyal concluded she was on the verge of killing herself and police TAC team members moved in with two armoured vehicles, firing a flash bang, or stun device into her car to distract her.

But it was then that the officer, who’d been on the job 18 months, shot herself.

The previous evening, Joyal’s suicidal text messages had alerted her common-law, police officer spouse, who raised the alarm after discovering Joyal had taken her service handgun out of her work locker.