A controversial symbol has been removed from a marked Calgary Police Service SUV after questions from CBC News alerted the service to its existence, weeks after a direct order from the city's police commission to stop displaying the thin blue line on police uniforms.
A lawyer for MLA Shannon Phillips had requested an inquiry into the letters last year, which was rejected by the Lethbridge Police Commission in part due to concerns about the letters' anonymity and lack of specific evidence.
Edmonton's mayor is demanding that Alberta's solicitor general and the city's police commission conduct reviews into actions by police before the arrest of a repeat offender for two killings in Chinatown.
A Calgary police officer who is headed to trial on charges of criminal harassment has a history of troubling behaviour toward women she sees as romantic rivals and stalked one woman to the point that she left the province, according to an internal disciplinary decision obtained by CBC News.