ONCE MORE A LOCAL POLICE SERVICE STEPS INTO THE NEWS BREACH

This time the Guelph Police have stepped up to take the heat off the Waterloo Regional Police who seem to be under almost constant attack with misbehaviours and improprieties galore. Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys this story "Guelph business owners sue police". The allegations essentially seem to be that Guelph Police were hell bent on destroying a small business owned by a couple of foreign ancestry located on Macdonell St. The owners have sued Guelph Police for "...alleged negligence, malicious breach of duty, trespass, conversion, nuisance, conspiracy, assault and intimidation.'. Guelph Police in response have takern the usual defensive route of claiming that they can't comment because it's before the courts. The defendants' lawyer is Davin Charney of Kitchener who has sucessfully taken Waterloo Regional Police to small claims court over abuses of authority on their part. As is unfortunate in many of these civil suits against police; there will probably be an out of court settlement in which taxpayers dollars will cover misbehaviour on the part of the Police, along with a confidentiality clause preventing the Plaintiffs from going public with the settlement. This is the huge injustice to the public, as police misconduct when it occurs, should be publicized as well as how much that misconduct costs the taxpaying public.