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The Ontario Liberals are announcing plans to overhaul the province’s police watchdogs, including an expansion of the Special Investigations Unit’s mandate, and updated rules that would improve public reporting and set time limits on investigations into police.
The announcement at Queen’s Park in Toronto also overhauls the Police Services Act, the piece of legislation that governs officers in Ontario. It hasn’t been updated significantly since 1990.
Among the changes will be provisions that allow for police officers to be suspended without pay and an expanded mandate for the Special Investigations Unit. Currently, it investigates death, serious injury and sexual assault at the hands of officers; this will now include investigations each time an officer shoots at a suspect. Changes will also require coroner’s inquests whenever police kill a person through force.
Ontario’s three police watchdogs — the Special Investigations Unit, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, which deals with public complaints and the Ontario Civilian Police Commission, which hears appeals from disciplinary action — will see significant changes, including an expansion of the SIU’s mandate and penalties for police officers who do not cooperate with investigations.
Several changes, at least for the SIU, were already underway, such as anti-bias training, this newspaper learned in June. Other changes needed legislative authority.
The review itself was announced in April 2016, after the public outcry over police shootings of black men in the Toronto area. The review looked into, for example, whether or not SIU reports should be made public at the end of an investigation, and whether the officers under investigation should be named publicly.
Under Justice Michael Tulloch’s leadership, it visited communities around Ontario – including Ottawa – culminating in April 2017 with a report released in Toronto. At the time, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi promised it would not “sit on a shelf.”
Several other reviews of the SIU have been completed since the unit started up in 1990, including two from former ombudsman André Marin.
— With files from Canadian Press
tdawson@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/tylerrdawson
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The announcement at Queen’s Park in Toronto also overhauls the Police Services Act, the piece of legislation that governs officers in Ontario. It hasn’t been updated significantly since 1990.
Among the changes will be provisions that allow for police officers to be suspended without pay and an expanded mandate for the Special Investigations Unit. Currently, it investigates death, serious injury and sexual assault at the hands of officers; this will now include investigations each time an officer shoots at a suspect. Changes will also require coroner’s inquests whenever police kill a person through force.
Ontario’s three police watchdogs — the Special Investigations Unit, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, which deals with public complaints and the Ontario Civilian Police Commission, which hears appeals from disciplinary action — will see significant changes, including an expansion of the SIU’s mandate and penalties for police officers who do not cooperate with investigations.
Several changes, at least for the SIU, were already underway, such as anti-bias training, this newspaper learned in June. Other changes needed legislative authority.
The review itself was announced in April 2016, after the public outcry over police shootings of black men in the Toronto area. The review looked into, for example, whether or not SIU reports should be made public at the end of an investigation, and whether the officers under investigation should be named publicly.
Under Justice Michael Tulloch’s leadership, it visited communities around Ontario – including Ottawa – culminating in April 2017 with a report released in Toronto. At the time, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi promised it would not “sit on a shelf.”
Several other reviews of the SIU have been completed since the unit started up in 1990, including two from former ombudsman André Marin.
— With files from Canadian Press
tdawson@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/tylerrdawson
查看原文...
