Police Complaints Commissioner Launches New Probe on Police Investigating Police
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The death of Ian Bush, has not only rocked the community of Houston B.C., but the Chair of the Commission for Public COmplaints, Paul Kenney says it had an effect in B.C. and in the Entire counttry. Kennedy says the public confidence in the RCMP has been shaken and the public has concerns about the "police investigate police " so he is launching another probe.
Kennedy has initiated a complaint into the conduct of those unidentified RCMP members who have conducted criminal investigations into the activities of other RCMP members, in cases that involved serious injury or death, which have taken place anywhere in Canada between April 1, 2002 and March 31, 2007.
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.
Accordingly, pursuant to subsection 45.37(1) of the RCMP Act, Mr. Kennedy is initiating a complaint into the conduct of the RCMP members involved in such investigations during the time period shown above, specifically:
- 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;
- whether these same RCMP members complied with all appropriate policies, procedures, guidelines and statutory requirements for such investigations; and
- 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.
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Posted by: heidi1555 on November 29 2007 10:54 AM
The time lag before Koester answered any questions about the circumstances relating to incident is absurd!
And so was his conduct on the witness stand at the inquest, by refusing to re-inact the shooting!
But he got away with it, and he is still a cop.
Contrary to popular belief,there ARE bad cops, and cops who crack and panic under stressful situations, just like any other profession.
Some are good at it,and some aren't.
Then there was the Vanderhoof shooting.
2 cops and a civilian,one cop say's the one who did the actual shooting isn't telling it like it happened, and so does the civilian who was there as well.
But the RCMP ignore that???
I just guess they HAVE take this further,but I still think it will get swept away!
And it won't be the first time either!
The RCMP DO cover their own dirt, so we shouldn't be suprised when nothing comes of this.