Calls for better police training and SIU reform are being ignored while avoidable tragedies continue
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“For the public to have confidence in policing and police oversight, justice must not only be done, but also be seen to be done.”
- Justice Michael Tulloch, Independent Police Oversight Review
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit has been the subject of review, analysis and reform since its inception in 1990. Many recommendations, particularly from Coroner’s Inquests after a police-involved death, have called for improving police training to deal with those in mental health crisis.
Despite these recommendations, and decades of review, police are ill-equipped to deal with many in crisis, leaving devastated families to pick up the pieces.
Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga on November 28, 2020
