Description: B.C.’s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner covers up for police misconduct; legislation allows the OPCC to work in near-secrecy, answering to no one; despite that lack of transparency and accountability four cover-ups have accidentally come to light involving Vancouver police officer Taylor Robinson, former Victoria police chief Frank Elsner, District of Saanich officer Brent Wray and New Westminster officer Sukhwinder “Vinnie” Dosanjh; British Columbia MLAs on all three elected parties consistently
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Home | Contact Two textbook cases of OPCC corruption: The OPCC cover-ups of Vancouver police constable Taylor Robinson and New Westminster officer Sukhwinder “Vinnie” Singh Dosanjh News and comment about police accountability in B.C. News and comment sorted by topic: B.C.’s corrupt Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner (OPCC) B.C.’s inadequate Independent Investigations Office (IIO) Establishment lapdogs: The Pivot Legal Society and B.C. Civil Liberties Association B.C.’s courtier media coverage on po
British Columbia’s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner enjoys a peculiar status that engenders corruption. B.C.’s Police Act exempts the agency from transparency and accountability, allowing OPCC staff to work in near-secrecy and in practice answer to no one. As a result, they get away with covering up police misconduct. Despite a supposedly comprehensive overhaul of B.C.’s Police Act now underway , there’s absolutely no impetus to reform this institution. OPCC cover-ups benefit from B.C.’s morass o
Notwithstanding the agency’s secrecy, four OPCC cover-ups have accidentally come to light. They involve Vancouver police officer Taylor Robinson , District of Saanich officer Brent Wray , former Victoria police chief Frank Elsner and New Westminster officer Sukhwinder “Vinnie” Dosanjh .