Dr. Darryl Plecas at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On October 22nd, 2012. See this statement in context.

October 22nd, 2012 / 3:55 p.m.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Research Chair and Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Research, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University College of the Fraser Valley, As an Individual

Dr. Darryl Plecas

I would certainly hope so.

One of the things I'm reminded of from our review, if you can believe it, 85% of the time that there is a code of conduct case, and remember that code of conduct cases are serious, those cases are dealt with in an informal manner. What would be the process to ensure there is a proper and independent vetting of that so that cases can't be scaled down when they more properly ought to be dealt with in a formal manner?

When one considers—or at least we found—it's the entire spectrum of code of conduct cases, hopefully those regulations would be such that they would provide some assurances to any outside observer that every case is being given full consideration.

Maybe I'm missing something in the proposed changes, but I'm not sure that's happening or could happen with what's in there right now.

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