CPC’s Report on Matters Death Still A Month or Two Away
Prince George, B.C.- It will likely be the New Year before the Commission for Public Complaints against the RCMP releases its report on the police shooting death of Greg Matters.
Matters, a Canadian Forces veteran who suffered from post traumatic stress disorder, was shot to death on a property in Pineview on the east side of Prince George on September 10th 2012.
Commission spokesperson Kate McDerby says the report has been completed, but there are still some steps which must be taken before the report will be released to the public. Because Greg Matters had leveled a complaint against the Chair of the Commission, Ian MacPhail, it is the Vice Chair who will review and sign off on the final report. Problem is, there is no current Vice Chair although one is expected to be appointed ‘shortly’.
The report will then be sent to the Commissioner of the RCMP for review. The Commissioner will outline which findings the RCMP agree or disagree with, and which recommendations it has already implemented or those which the RCMP will not implement and the reasons why.
Because of the time required to have a yet to be named Vice Chair of the CPC review and sign off on the report, then have the RCMP review and submit its comments, combined with the fact the holiday season will soon be here, it is unlikely this report could be released before the end of 2014.
The shooting of Matters has undergone several investigations. There was the initial investigation by the Independent Investigations Office which concluded there was no criminal wrong doing by police. A Coroner’s Inquest resulted in 9 recommendations and the IIO’s handling of the case was also reviewed by a Civilian Monitor .
Matters’ family has been calling for a public inquiry .
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if the Commission for Public Complaints is going to go around behind the IIO, a civialian Monitor and the Coroner’s Inquest and over rule their decisions, if they over run their decisions, why does the IIO, Civilian Monitor and Coroner’s Office even exist?
Let Commission for Public Complaints handle the investigations… and lets hope someone else doesn’t come along, stick their nose in the business at hand and think their opinion carries more weight.
Time for government to make a decision as to who and what does these investigations…put it into law and the rest of these people can start minding their own business and take a hike.
this is my opinion, it isn’t here to fit your thought pattern, I respect your opinion, if you don’t like mine tough banannas,
The IIO initially looked like a step forward, until they started hiring ex-cops to be their investigators. In my opinion, this is no different than what we had…cops investigating cops.
We need people involved in these investigations who have law enforcement experience so policies, procedures and protocol are known and understood…
do they need to be the main investigators…NO
but they need to be involved if only as a consultant….
What is the answer, WHO KNOWS,
and will it make everyone happy, NOT A CHANCE,
there will always be someone complaining , thinking they have been hard done by…or not happy with the answers, even if the answers are correct.
Maybe they need all the investigators to be inmates or e-inmates… yeah that will be fair and just…..
No police shooting in Japan or England in 2014. Civilized and no roids maybe.
We need a review of the review of the review.
No Johnny, we need another overseer of the overseer, overseeing what the other overseers are doing, then we’ll get it right.
Sad that folks don’t get the IIO are doing their darndest to be independent of everything else thrown at them. People will always complain though, don’t matter what their results are.
Griz: “People will always complain though, don’t matter what their results are.”
Funny, I remember saying that back when the IIO was being proposed.
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