Ontario Strengthening Police Oversight, Redefining Core Police Duties
"Sweeping changes to Ontario's policing laws were introduced
Thursday, including strengthening oversight, making it possible to
suspend officers without pay and redefining police duties.
The new rules, contained in a massive piece of legislation years in the
making, would include the first update to the province's Police
Services Act in more than 25 years.
'The issues faced by police services and their members today are far
more complex than when the act was developed,' said Community Safety and
Correctional Services Minister Marie-France Lalonde. 'The last time the
act was revised, there was no internet, the Blue Jays won the World
Series and you needed a briefcase to carry your cellphone.'
Many of the policing updates stem from Appeal Court Justice Michael
Tulloch's report on police oversight, released earlier this year, and
include requiring the Special Investigations Unit or SIU, one of the
province's police oversight agencies, to report publicly on all of its
investigations and release the names of officers charged."
Ontario Ombudsman: Submission to the Independent Police Oversight Review
Report of the Independent Police Oversight Review
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