IIO: Investigations

Richard Rosenthal Dept: Under an agreement with B.C. police services, including the RCMP, the IIO will be called when incidents occur and will dispatch investigators to scenes across the province to take on investigations that were previously handled by police, according to Globe and Mail. I have heard from the police, over and over again, that they don t want to conduct these investigations themselves because of the problems that they are going to be criticized as biased, said Mr. Rosenthal, who comes to this new postings from police oversight positions in Portland and Denver and a tweet from the IIO just after 8 p.m. PT Monday suggested the organization already had its first case a police-involved shooting in Prince George. No other information was immediately released. The IIO said it would release additional details on Tuesday morning. Richard Rosenthal, the office s chief civilian director, said police departments were happy to cede control of such matters to the IIO in a handover confirmed with a memorandum of understanding earlier this month. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.