British Columbia
Vancouver police body-cam debate heats up | CityNews Vancouver
The VPD is gathering opinions on its body-worn camera project via virtual town hall meetings on Monday and Thursday nights.
RCMP under investigation after Indigenous woman's body found within a kilometre of where she went missing | CBC News
B.C.'s police oversight agency is determining whether police action or inaction contributed to the death of a Saik'uz First Nation woman, after it said her body was found on Nov. 5 within a kilometre of where she was last seen alive almost a month earlier.
Rights boss starts inquiry into Vancouver police media restrictions at camp removal – Winnipeg Free Press
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s Human Rights Commissioner has launched an inquiry into police restrictions on media covering the dismantling of a homeless camp in Vancouver’s Downtown...
Police violated protesters’ rights in Wet’suwet’en pipeline blockades, Amnesty says - The Globe and Mail
Report criticizes the handling of the protests on Wet’suwet’en territory in central B.C. between 2019 and 2023, including multiple RCMP raids on protesters in 2019, 2020 and 2021
Vancouver police's body-camera pilot pushed back to new year | CBC News
After promising to implement a body-camera pilot project this fall, the Vancouver Police Department now says 80 officers will be fitted with the cameras at the beginning of January 2024.
Vancouver police vote 96.9% in favour of new contract - Vancouver Is Awesome
Agreement will see 4.5% salary increase this year and another $4.5% in 2024
Alberta
88 cops in Edmonton and Calgary have left their jobs while under investigation since 2012 | CBC News
Dozens of police officers in Alberta’s two major cities have retired or resigned while under investigation for misconduct since 2012, according to statistics obtained through freedom of information.
New Calgary police investigator to focus on Indigenous missing people | CityNews Calgary
The Calgary Police Service has hired an investigator to their missing persons team who will focus solely on Indigenous people.
Edmonton city council backs more police patrols around transit | CBC News
Edmonton city councillors support more police and peace officers patrolling its public transit system in a bid to curb crime and social disorder, as the province announces money for Edmonton to hire 50 new officers next year.
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission reviews police street checks | Globalnews.ca
A Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission report looked into how stakeholders perceived a police practice known as street checks.
Trauma from dog bites puts spotlight on Saskatoon police's policy on using dogs in arrests | CBC News
CBC obtained SPS’s police dog policy through a FOIPP. A lawyer says the policy gives officers too much leeway. SPS says the policy is updated yearly and that police dogs are important part of the work they do.
Rewards for Tamra Keepness, Htoo/Maw family renewed: Regina Police Board | Globalnews.ca
The Regina Board of Police Commissioners have renewed rewards to information leading to the closure of two Regina unsolved police investigations.
‘My biggest privilege’: Regina’s newest police chief ready for the challenge - Regina | Globalnews.ca
Farooq Hassan Sheikh was sworn in as chief on Dec. 1, and he attended his first Board of Police Commissioners meeting Tuesday to look at the state of policing in the city.
Manitoba
Supporters see body-worn cameras as aid to policing – Winnipeg Free Press
It’s time for the Winnipeg Police Service to be outfitted with body-worn cameras, says the brother of Sean Thompson, a 30-year-old Anishinaabe man who died after being pulled down several porch stairs...
Serving as Winnipeg police chief a privilege but 'a heavy burden,' Smyth says as he announces 2024 retirement | CBC News
Winnipeg police Chief Danny Smyth, whose retirement was expected next year, announced Friday that he'll hang up his hat in September 2024.
Police board wants law changes to update outdated photo radar system | CTV News
Winnipeg's police board says the city's photo radar system is outdated and is lobbying the new NDP government to step in and fix it.
Protests against Israel-Hamas war cost $136K in Winnipeg police overtime so far, board hears | CBC News
Winnipeg police say weekly car rallies and marches in protest of the Israel-Hamas conflict continue to pose a serious strain on their resources, repeating a request for the public to stop holding them at a Friday city police board meeting.
Ontario
Ottawa police board settles with family over invasion of privacy | CBC News
The Ottawa Police Services Board has settled a lawsuit involving an officer accused of invading a grieving family's privacy by trying to determine the vaccination status of a recently deceased infant's mother.
OPP charge Thunder Bay police officer with assault, breach of trust, obstruction of justice | CBC News
Ontario Provincial Police have charged a Thunder Bay police officer with two counts of assault, breach of trust and obstruction of justice following a roughly two-year investigation.
'No longer any doubt,' says Soleiman Faqiri's family as inquest deems Ontario jail death a homicide | CBC News
Soleiman Faqiri’s deadly restraint by Ontario jail guards in 2016 has been deemed a homicide — words his family has waited to hear for nearly seven years, since he died shackled, pepper sprayed and covered with a spit hood face down on a cell floor.
Mother of slain London woman calls police reporting practices problematic | CBC News
Three months after her daughter was found shot dead, Linda Davidson has a long list of questions with no easy route to the answers.
Widow takes OPP to court over husband's death | CTV News
A grieving widow is taking the Ontario Provincial Police to court as she challenges its decision to call the misconduct of an officer that contributed to her husband’s death 'not of a serious nature.'
Police could return to London-area schools with a new 'community' mandate | CBC News
In its final report, a committee reviewing the school resource officer program in London-area schools recommended that a new trauma-informed program be piloted, with a focus on the considerations of BIPOC and other equity-deserving groups.
Thunder Bay police chief meets with First Nations leaders in first leadership forum | CBC News
Thunder Bay police Chief Darcy Fleury continues his outreach efforts, meeting with leaders from First Nations and saying it was a chance to help repair a broken relationship between police and Indigenous people in the city.
Naming victims would keep women safer, police board vice-chair says | CBC News
A member of London's Police Services Board said the force needs to take a second look at what information they choose to disclose about death investigations, with an eye to surfacing the widespread problem of male violence against women.
Vote on police budget with 26 member jump in staff Dec. 12 - Sudbury News
Greater Sudbury city council is slated to vote Dec. 12 on the Greater Sudbury Police Service’s 2024/25 budgets, which carry respective increases of 8.09% and 6.2%
Nova Scotia
Sale of decommissioned police vehicles in CBRM did not break law, say Cape Breton police | CBC News
A law professor wants to see stricter rules around the sale of decommissioned police vehicles in Nova Scotia after Cape Breton Regional Police sold several stripped-down cars last week.
Responses from RCMP, governments, to mass shooting inquiry are on track, says observer | CBC News
The head of the independent committee overseeing how governments and the RCMP are responding to recommendations from the Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry says she has no complaints so far.
New Brunswick
Police board questions value of work municipalities want before they make RCMP decision | CBC News
The board overseeing the Codiac Regional RCMP has voted to delay work that Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview want complete ahead of deciding whether to keep the Mounties as their police service.
N.B. RCMP officer found guilty of 4 charges, not guilty of sexual assault | CBC News
Woodstock-area RCMP officer Osama Ibrahim, 29, was found guilty of assault, choking during an assault, carrying, using or threatening to use a weapon during an assault, and breach of trust. He was found not guilty of sexual assault.
The North
N.W.T. RCMP unit dealing with dozens of unsolved murder and missing person files | CBC News
It's been five years since the N.W.T. RCMP's Historical Case Unit was first announced — and the number of unsolved historical missing and murdered persons cases in territory has since grown.
National
Terrorism threat in Canada ‘medium’: CSIS director – Winnipeg Free Press
The recent terror attack on Israel and resulting war have made an increasingly dangerous world even more so for Canadians, even at home, says the head of CSIS. “I have to tell you the events of Oct. 7...
National-security adviser nixes idea of foreign-intelligence agency for Canada - The Globe and Mail
Creation of such an agency ‘is not on the policy agenda’ at the moment, Jody Thomas tells ‘Navigating the future of national security’ event
In the 1970s, the RCMP hired an FBI agent to infiltrate Black activist groups in Canada | CBC Documentaries
Warren Hart might not have been the first to infiltrate activist groups in Canada, but his work with the RCMP signalled a turning point for how authorities monitor figures in the country's Black rights groups and other political movements.
Opinion: As security threats mount, the holes in Canada’s defences can no longer be ignored - The Globe and Mail
The natural defences that long protected us having withered away, we seem incapable of replacing them with anything
International
Body cameras haven't been an effective tool for police reform
Big Local News and theGrio asked experts to review body camera footage portraying the use of force by police in three states.
AI-generated hoaxes pose a 'persistent threat' to public safety: intel analysis - BNN Bloomberg
Violent extremists who lack the means to carry out an attack in Canada could compensate by perpetrating hoaxes with the help of artificial intelligence, says a newly released analysis.