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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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[–] ifyoudontknowlearn@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not cooperating with oversight investigators should be a fireable offence. Just straight up your job has a higher standard of conduct. If you want your right to not talk that's fine but you can do that as a civilian not a police officer.

It's long past time to force officers to be held accountable.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Oversight is part of the job. Don't want to do the job? Fine, the door's wide open.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

100% this. The role of police is too important to let thugs hide behind "I don wan be incwiminated".