Coming to the eighth year of the RCMP, Comster. Kerri McKee of the Cree Nation in Montreal, Saskatchewan believes that she is used to both Aboriginal women
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Toronto may never see body-worn camera police footage
by Jessica Bruno and Mark McAllister
Posted Apr 21, 2021 5:41 pm EDT
Last Updated Apr 21, 2021 at 5:50 pm EDT
Canadians are watching as footage from U.S. officers’ body-worn cameras are released days, or even hours, after police have shot and killed people of colour.
But in Toronto, even as more police wear cameras, experts say it’s unlikely the public here would ever see video that fast – if at all.
“Any time it’s a serious incident, it goes directly to the Special Investigations Unit (SIU). You might not hear about it for six months, nine months, whatever the case may be,” said Erick Laming, a criminologist specializing in police reform at the University of Toronto. “This greatly differs from the U.S. in most jurisdictions.”
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Saskatchewan’s civilian-led Serious Incident Response Team, an independent agency that will investigate serious incidents involving police, is expected to be in place and operating this fall.
The provincial government introduced legislation on Monday to create the province’s policing oversight investigative arm, which will end the practice of police investigating serious incidents involving other police.
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The bill proposes SIRT will be led by a civilian executive director and will investigate all incidents involving sexual assault, serious injury or deaths in police custody or as a result of a police officer’s actions. The SIRT’s executive director can also call an investigation into other incidents when they believe it’s in the public interest to have the indep
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