Cops refuse to cooperate with investigations - sh.itjust.works

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 [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-police-oversight-bodies-hindered-by-silence-of-officers-globe-analysis/] …, while they often only partly co-operate with independent oversight bodies in other provinces.