What is the procedure for dealing with a complaint against a police officer?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Diaz-Rodriguez v. British Columbia (Police Complaint Commissioner), 2020 BCCA 221 (CanLII):
The procedure for dealing with complaints against police officers is set out in Part XI of the Act, provisions that have been described as “dense, complicated and often confusing”: Florkow v. British Columbia (Police Complaint Commissioner), 2013 BCCA 92 at para. 6. In Florkow, Newbury J.A. helpfully distilled the labyrinth of procedural steps as follows:
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