Victoria police release use-of-force report
'Nothing that complicated,' chief says
The Canadian Press
Posted: Oct 15, 2010 2:34 PM PT
Last Updated: Oct 15, 2010 3:29 PM PT
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A report has been released on use of force by the Victoria Police Department, but it does not address specific incidents that prompted the review.
The report, made public Friday, contains 80 recommendations on policy within the force, such as better training. It was written by retired Ottawa police chief Vince Bevan, who has produced similar reports for police departments in Ontario and New Brunswick.
He was appointed in the wake of several troubling incidents involving Victoria officers, including one in which two received a written reprimand for leaving a drunken teenage girl tethered by her feet on the concrete floor of a police cell for four hours in 2005.
In another case, bystander video showed an officer kneeing a handcuffed man. In a separate case, charges were laid against an officer following an alleged jail-cell assault.
"We looked at the report and implemented half of the recommendations already," Victoria police Chief Jamie Graham told CBC News. "There's nothing that complicated in this."
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