Manitoba’s ‘outdated’ agency for complaints about police conduct to be overhauled: minister
Process at understaffed agency ‘sucks the life out of you,’ former complainant says
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The Manitoba agency that investigates public complaints about officer misconduct is getting overhauled amid growing calls for greater police scrutiny, CBC News has learned.
“I don’t want to prescribe the solution. I know there’s a problem,” provincial Justice Minister Kelvin Goertzen said in response to a CBC News investigation into Manitoba’s Law Enforcement Review Agency (LERA).
Goertzen said the province will introduce legislation this session to address the “outdated” parts of LERA, an independent civilian agency that looks into complaints about the conduct of municipal police officers.
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