The city’s police department has been beset with some ‘operational’ challenges and it could cause some financial hardship for the city down the road. According to the City of Nelson’s 2022 third quarter report the Protective Services (Nelson Police Department) expenses are trending higher than in 2021, but the full impact is likely not apparent right now, said city chief
Four of the Vancouver police officers involved in the death of Myles Gray in 2015 were already under investigation because of an incident that left a man with a broken jaw just six weeks earlier, CBC News has learned.
A missing Indigenous teen who lived with developmental disabilities was dead in an SRO unit for months before being discovered – despite the fact that Vancouver police located and removed a deceased man from the same unit while she was already dead.
An internal request for an investigation of eight present and former Nelson police officers is underway, the provincial Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner has confirmed. When contacted by The Nelson Daily, OPCC deputy police complaint commissioner Andrea Spindler said in an email response that she couldn’t comment or confirm many of the details of the investigation