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Saturday, April 30, 2016

POLICE OVERSIGHT REVIEW IS OVERDUE




Today's Waterloo Region Record carrys the following article titled "Ontario launches police oversight review". While the article focus on one fatal incident involving a hammer wielding man (Andrew Loku), the need for a review of the three police oversight agencies is based upon multiple deaths of civilians, some resulting in criminal charges and some not. The three agencies are the SIU (Special Investigations Unit), the OIPRD (Office of the Independent Police Review Director) and OCPC (Ontario Civilian Police Commission).

The nearest death geographically would be the shooting of a young man on Brybeck Cres. in Kitchener. While apparently not threatening anyone while holding a small knife he was nevertheless shot and killed by a Waterloo Regional Police officer. Obviously police are dealing with criminals as well as with people with mental health issues. Then there are young men with simply too much alcohol in their systems. The final straw with these three situations may also be some police with a little too much attitude who feel that merely disobeying their orders are shooting matters. They are not!
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  1. AnonymousMay 11, 2016 at 3:50 AM

    Lets review decades of police abuse but doubt we got decades or money for the law suits that would arise im not shocked or surprized



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