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Report calls for watchdog judg
VICTORIA'S revamped police corruption watchdog should be headed by a top judge, a report has recommended.
The new Office of Police Integrity, headed by George Brouwer, who also served as the ombudsman at the same time, should be headed by the yet to be appointed Director Police Integrity as a separate full-time position.
The report by State Government-appointed Special Investigations Monitor David Talbot says the person chosen as DPI should have qualified as a judge of the Victorian Supreme Court or its interstate equivalents, or the High or Federal courts.
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Top Mounties rewrote half repo
OTTAWA -- B.C. RCMP detachments will have observers on their shoulder during investigations into in-custody deaths or other serious incidents involving the RCMP .
A pilot project for the province was announced in Ottawa yesterday by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP is aimed at restoring confidence in the force after two high-profile police shootings in the Interior.
In conjunction with the RCMP office of investigative standards and practices, commission chairman Paul Kennedy said his staff will begin to observe and assess the impartiality of investigations that involve police officers.
Public concerns have been raised about the ensuing investigations after two young B.C. men were shot by RCMP officers: Ian Bush, a 22-year-old Houston mill-worker arrested for giving a false name in October 2005 and Kevin St. Arnaud, a 29-year-old drugstore theft suspect slain after a short chase in December 2004 in Vanderhoof.
The past two RCMP commissioners before the recent appointment of a public servant to head the force effectively rewrote half of the rulings by a civilian watchdog agency that found Mounties used excessive force or acted improperly over a year-long period, a report by Kennedy released yesterday says.
The RCMP Commission for Public Complaints issued 48 interim reports on public complaints against the RCMP between March 2006, and last March. Half of the 184 findings in the reports went against the officers involved, the commission's annual report says.
But former commissioners Beverley Busson and Giuliano Zaccardelli challenged half of the adverse findings, questioning witness credibility, reweighing evidence, introducing new evidence and substituting their own findings of fact in the cases, said Kennedy's report.
The refusal of the RCMP commissioners to accept the findings of commission reviews over Mountie actions "strikes at the core of civilian accountability of the RCMP," the report said. "More than half of the commission's adverse findings have been overruled by the RCMP commissioner, enabling the RCMP, in effect, to ignore the merits of the commission's recommendations."
The report added the resistance "significantly undermines" civilian review of the RCMP and is "inherently biased" against the person who has lodged the complaint. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day tabled the report in the Commons yesterday through a special procedure used when Parliament is not sitting.
Aside from announcing the pilot project in B.C. to address some of those concerns, Kennedy also made other recommendations in his annual report to Parliament, delivered yesterday.
Most importantly, he said, he needs new legislation with teeth to deal with suspected police misconduct .
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