A new independent agency set up to investigate complaints against the police has cleared two Halifax officers of any wrongdoing in the first report it has released since it was created.

Nova Scotia’s Serious Incident Response Team found that the officers used reasonable force during an arrest on April 21 that left a 61-year-old woman with a broken arm.

The report concludes no criminal charges are warranted.

The team says police were called to deal with a woman who was obstructing traffic at Federal and McAlpine avenues in the city that evening.

Witnesses told the team the woman appeared to be in an altered mental state.

The report says the woman resisted attempts by a male and a female officer to leave the street and became aggressive, trying to bite the female officer.