Quebec police refusing to co-operate in investigations on civilian deaths
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Many police are refusing to answer questions from the oversight body on civilian deaths following a court ruling last year that said officers must meet with investigators

Quebec police are refusing to answer questions from the oversight body investigating civilian deaths and serious injuries during police interventions. This is after

[Police] unions also challenged the obligation for officers to meet with … investigators. They argued that those rules infringed on their members’ constitutional rights to stay silent and not incriminate themselves.

It’s part of a national trend:

in British Columbia, police officers rarely co-operate with the Independent Investigations Office …, while they often only partly co-operate with independent oversight bodies in other provinces.

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I don’t know enough about law to say whether those excepts are the only rules that would be relevant in this scenario.

It is clear that police officers and unions are systematically undermining public safety through legal appeals and non-compliance.

Because they fundamentally believe that laws do not apply to them … they only enforce, not obey.

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