The Alberta police officer investigating allegations of brutality against the Whitehorse RCMP is wrapping up his investigation.

Sgt. Steve Murray of the Lacombe detachment north of Red Deer arrived in Whitehorse last week as an independent investigator to look into accusations made last month by 48-year-old Wayne Hare of Whitehorse.

Murray said in an interview Wednesday he wants to let people know that if they feel they might have anything to offer the investigation, he can be reached at 335-8968.

The officer pointed out he's already interviewed Hare, local RCMP officers, cell guards and people who were in and around the downtown bar were Hare was arrested, then taken to jail.

"We want to get to the bottom of this,” Murray told the Star. "It is important for the community to get to the bottom of this.

"So if there is anybody who thinks they have something to offer, we want to make sure we give them that opportunity.”

He said in a case like this, individuals may not feel comfortable going directly to the local RCMP.

This a situation, he said, where Hare doesn't remember what happened.

Murray said he'll stay in Whitehorse as long as he needs to, but having already talked to the key witnesses, he'll be leaving soon if nobody else comes forward.

But the phone number where he can be reached will remain active for the next month or so, he said.

Hare maintains he doesn't remember anything from the time RCMP officers arrested him and put him in the police car to when he woke up in jail naked the next morning, with a broken shoulder.

Murray said he expects he'll have the matter wrapped up in the next month. He will present his findings to the Alberta Crown for review before filing his report with Yukon Justice Minister Marian Horne.

In addition to conducting the interviews, the Lacombe officer has also seized that night's video recordings from the cell block.

The allegations came just days after the RCMP and Yukon government announced their findings of a territorial review of how prisoners are treated in police cells.

The review was prompted in part by the 2008 case of 43-year-old Raymond Silverfox, who died in his cell 13 hours after having been arrested.

Circumstances surrounding his death shocked the public when they came to light during last year's inquest.