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Ottawa police will no longer routinely tell police officers when fellow cops are suspended from duty, saying that the decision to release that information will now be made on a case-by-case basis. The service will also no longer confirm all suspensions to this newspaper.
The revelation came in an interview Thursday in which police explained the criteria and rationale for suspending officers with pay and why that is not, in the service’s eyes, a punishment that would require revealing the officers’ identities. Those questions came after a Citizen investigation last year which revealed that there is no public accounting of suspended officers’ identities and the reasons for their suspensions.