Public Safety committee  For example, we're dealing with one set of evidence, regardless of whether you're investigating the affected person or the police officer, looking at conduct. Where IIO staff have gone to Cranbrook and seized CCTV video and other surveillance, physical evidence at a scene, or hav

Public Safety committee  There's an affected person who is involved in a police incident. He is injured. It's a minor injury that's not required to be reported to the IIO. A month later he develops pneumonia as a result of the injuries that occurred a month earlier, which link back to the police incident

Public Safety committee  We're trying to come up with a standard definition.

Public Safety committee  Let's say there's a motor vehicle crash, the affected person flees from a roadblock, there's a pursuit, there's a crash, and someone dies. The RCMP are responsible for the investigation involving the affected person who was driving and who fled. The IIO is responsible for investi

Public Safety committee  Correct.

Public Safety committee  The best way for me to answer that is to talk about our public reporting. At the end of an IIO investigation, if a case is not going to crown, there's a very comprehensive public report that talks about the circumstances that led to the event, and the chief civilian director's

Public Safety committee  I think when we began there was healthy skepticism. The feedback we get now, for the most part, is positive. We even have situations where, when the IIO doesn't take a case on, police services say, “Please take it on, because I'm in a small community, and if you take it on you'

Public Safety committee  It's B.C., Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia. I believe Quebec is next in line.

Public Safety committee  We're dealing with the criminal investigation into the acts of the affected person, for example, the gentleman with the knife at the SkyTrain station, prior to the police incident. That is done by the police office of jurisdiction, say the RCMP. We're looking at the conduct from

Public Safety committee  It's complicated. We have that same combination here in British Columbia. I would say that right now we are 50% municipal policing and 50% RCMP. Regardless of how the contract is constructed for RCMP services, we have received nothing but cooperation from the RCMP in B.C.

Public Safety committee  That certainly was before my time. Those inquiries took place more historically than when the IIO became operational. Our focus was on the public inquiry that took place and that led to the recommendation and creation of the office.

Public Safety committee  I think it's important for the committee to know that our group of stakeholders was involved prior to our opening the door. They were part of the development of the MOU, so we ensured that the MOU met the needs of first nations leadership and first nations governance in B.C. As w

Public Safety committee  Thank you. Yes, Quebec is starting to look at a police oversight agency, so I'm sure it won't be too long. We have a very strong network of stakeholders that includes families, the media, government, community groups, and civil liberties groups. We are very linked in with the f

Public Safety committee  We issued a media release on a case involving an affected person who had been taken into custody and experienced some physical injury because of the use of force. In the media release, at his family's request, we disclosed that he experienced autism. We received information and f

Public Safety committee  It's not representative of the population, but I think it's representative of the population that police services provide service to. We are not seeing a large number of first nations individuals. Most of our affected people are young adult males who are challenged by addictions,