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City Council members questioned Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly yesterday for more than three hours on diversity in the Police Department, standards for undercover operations and perceptions of the police’s unequal treatment of black New Yorkers.
The questioning came at a hearing, the first in a series scheduled after the shooting of Sean Bell, an unarmed black man who was killed in Queens in a hail of police bullets on his wedding day in November.
“There remains a problem with treatment of African-Americans in this city,” Councilman David Yassky said. “Too many African-Ame... Read more
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A Dorval resident has filed a complaint with the Police Ethics Commission alleging that a Surete du Quebec officer told him he should speak French if he lives in Quebec.
"The SQ are the ones who deal with out-of-town drivers, so I assumed they'd be a bit classier than that," Tim Sturton said. "I hate to think how they talk to someone from the States or Edmonton."
He said he was driving Wednesday afternoon with some colleagues on Cote de Liesse Rd. when he was pulled over by the officer and told he was doing 116 kilometres per hour in a 70-kilometres-per-hour zone.
As the officer was writing up the ticket in her cruiser, Sturton got out of his car, approached her and asked in English if she was sure it was his car she'd caught in her speed gun.
Sturton said the officer told him she didn't have to show him any proof of how she caught him. She then said: "If you live in Quebec, you should speak French," Sturton says.
"I might have been going 80 or so, but couldn't have been going that fast because there was traffic," said Sturton, who is fluent in French. "But I'll deal with that in the courts. It was the officer's lack of professionalism that really ticked me off."
SQ spokesperson Marc Butz wouldn't comment on the incident.
Sturton said he spoke to Jean Boise in SQ external affairs, who told him to file a written complaint to the internal affairs department. They in turn directed him to the Police Ethics Commission, an independent civilian body that investigates the public's complaints against police.
Louise Letarte, a lawyer at the commission, said there are no set rules as to what language a police officer must use.
"But they mustn't be impolite," she said. "They have to treat people with consideration and respect in order to maintain the public confidence.
"Ideally, we'd all be able to understand one another."
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