Prince George, B.C. - Later this morning, the Commission for Complaints Against the RCMP (CPC) will release its final report on Police Investigating Police. 

 

The investigation was launched by the Commission Chair, Paul Kennedy, in November of 2007 and was to examine the conduct of RCMP members who had investigated other RCMP members in cases of serious injury or death between April 1^st of 2002 and March 31^st of 2007.

 

Kennedy set out three key areas of concern in his investigation:

1.    whether the RCMP members involved in these investigations conducted the investigations free of actual or perceived conflict of interest, whether they responded appropriately and proportionately to the gravity of the incident, whether they responded in a timely fashion and whether their conduct adhered to the standards set out in section 37 of the RCMP Act;

2.    whether these same RCMP members complied with all appropriate policies, procedures, guidelines and statutory requirements for such investigations; and

3.    whether existing RCMP policies, procedures and guidelines are adequate to ensure that fair, effective, thorough and impartial investigations are carried out by RCMP members when investigating fellow RCMP members.

 

Kennedy says various members of the public and the media have expressed concern about the propriety of RCMP members investigating other RCMP members, especially in cases of this nature.

 

The final report will be delivered shortly after 8 this morning.