- Target:
- Government of Canada
- Region:
- Canada
- Website:
- www.parl.gc.ca
Below is a petition to have police self-investigations outlawed throughout all of Canada. This is not a petition against police but rather one that will make it safer for a good cop to be a good cop. When police investigate themselves, good officers are not permitted to tell the truth about their fellow officer's crimes without fear of retaliation.
There can be no trust by the taxpaying public of its police forces when police are allowed to investigate themselves. It is an inherent conflict of interest, by anyone's standards. Being honest is a challenge for our police members when we allow police to investigate themselves. Let's change that and make a safer atmosphere in which the good, brave men and women of Canada can be good, HONEST officers. Let's give them the ability to tell the truth in SAFETY.
One need not be a citizen to sign a petition, but one must be a resident of Canada. Please sign and enter your city & province. Feel free to copy and paste this into a word processor, print and collect signatures on your own. Please, follow the link provided above to read the rules regarding petitions on the the Government of Canada website.
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We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, draw the attention of the Government of Canada to the following:
That, as we have lost trust in the police forces of Canada to investigate themselves adequately, we call upon the Government of Canada to outlaw the practice everywhere in Canada. We ask that a panel of elected, independent investigators, along with mandatory participation of members of the jury pool to form an independent team to investigate all future claims against the police at all levels.
To clarify what is meant by "independent":
professional investigators that have no criminal record, have no former history with police, have never worked on a police force nor worked with police, have no associations with off duty police members, have no family members who are police and have no business dealings with any member of a police force.
We also request that the government grant these new, independent investigative teams the authority, at their discretion, to reopen and investigate past cases. We beseech the Government of Canada to bring this into effect so that the public can regain its urgently needed trust in the police forces of Canada.
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The Outlaw Police Self-Investigation petition to Government of Canada was written by Terri Williams and is in the category Law & Order at GoPetition.