B.C.’s police watchdog has ruled out criminal charges against a Nanaimo RCMP officer who shot and killed a man armed with a knife.

An investigation by the Independent Investigations Office found that the man, Craig Andrew Ford, ignored several commands to drop the knife before he was shot and killed outside of a Dairy Queen near Norwell Drive at Highway 19A on June 14, 2016, about 10:20 a.m.