(Image: New Brunswick RCMP/submitted)
Proposed changes to the province’s
Police Act are making their way through the New Brunswick legislature.
Bill 53, which is more than 50 pages in length, was brought before MLAs earlier this month and passed first and second reading.
Among the changes is a 180-day cap on paid suspensions for officers facing a complaint under the act.
Currently, officers can only be suspended without pay if convicted of a provincial or federal offence.
But few complaints should make it to the 180-day point, according to the association representing front-line police officers.
That is because changes are also proposed to the overall time limits for processing and arbitrating complaints.