Photo: Nicholas Johansen

An unmarked RCMP SUV is parked in the driveway at 3218 Boucherie Road Saturday morning.

UPDATE: 10:40 am

Police remain at the scene of an overnight incident on Boucherie Road on Saturday morning.

Two RCMP vehicles remain parked in the driveways of 3212 and 3218 Boucherie Road and yellow police tape surrounds the front yard of 3218 Boucherie following what police described only as a “police incident.”

Boucherie Road was closed between Montigni and Sunnyside roads from about 11:45 p.m. Friday until about 4 a.m. Saturday while officers “examined the scene,” according to Sgt. Judith Bertrand of the Kelowna RCMP.

Police have not yet released any other information about what happened.

A local resident said officers combed the neighborhood with police dogs at night.

A vehicle was also set on fire in West Kelowna overnight north of Highway 97 near a mobile home park on Lenz Road. That fire happened around midnight shortly after the police incident on Boucherie, but police have not said if the two incidents are related.

Photo: Victoria Shaw

A vehicle caught fire near a mobile home park on Lenz Road at midnight.

ORIGINAL: 06:25

A section of Boucherie Road in West Kelowna was closed overnight due to an incident with police, although few details are known about what happened.

In a press release issued just after 2 a.m. Saturday morning, Sgt. Judith Bertrand of the Kelowna RCMP said the incident began in the 3200 block of Boucherie Road around 11:45 p.m. Friday night.

As a result, Boucherie Road was closed between Montigni and Sunnyside Roads until around 4am

Sgt. Bertrand asked all pedestrians and drivers to avoid the area while investigators examined the scene.

A local resident said officers were combing the neighborhood with police dogs.

Boucherie road was reopened to traffic. Castanet will update this story as more information becomes available.