The B.C. Coroners Service has announced that an inquest will be held into the death of the RCMP officer who served as a spokesperson for the force during the Robert Dziekanski affair of 2007.

Pierre Lemaitre committed suicide at his home in Abbotsford in July 2013.

Dziekanski was killed by the RCMP at Vancouver International Airport when officers tasered him immediately after arriving on the scene. The incident was captured on video and the affair attracted considerable media attention for several years.

Among a number of scandals related to Dziekanski's death, subsequent reviews found there were inconsistencies between what Lemaitre was understood to have known about the facts of the incident when he described it to the public and what Lemaitre told the public occurred that day at YVR.

Today (July 23) the coroners service said that an inquest into the circumstances around Lemaitre's death will begin on November 19, 2018.

"Lemaitre was 55 years of age when he died on July 29, 2013, in Abbotsford. He was a 22-year veteran of the RCMP who died as a result of self-inflicted injuries," reads a coroners service media release.