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As a provincial civilian law enforcement agency, the SIU has the power and authority to investigate police officers regulated by the Special Investigations Unit Act [7] and charge them with criminal offences. The SIU oversees 47 police services and upwards of 23,000 police officers from municipal, regional, and provincial services. [8]
The SIU announced in late August 2020 it had cleared all police officers of wrongdoing and found no evidence of police involvement in her death. [4] Korchinski-Paquet's death inspired a number of protests in Canada against police involvement in her death and other issues of anti-black and anti-Indigenous sentiment.
The SIU and the families welcomed it, but police unions such as the Ontario Provincial Police Association claimed that police officers now have less protection than the rest of Canada. [ 12 ] There also continues to be controversy as to the lack of support given to the SIU by the provincial government in pursuing its role in this case and ...
The Los Angeles Police Protective League has filed a lawsuit accusing LAPD Cmdr. Lillian Carranza of improperly accessing the officers' union's records. Lawsuit claims LAPD commander tried to ...
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There are no accurate reports on how many of the 800,000 sworn officers are members of a police union. The best estimate would be 75-80 percent; that would rank police officers with firefighters as having the highest unionization rates in the United States. [1] The New York City Police Department is the largest in the country. With roughly ...
The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), which supported President Donald Trump's election in 2016, 2020, and 2024, yesterday criticized his blanket pardon for people charged in connection with the ...
In October 2011, 16 NYPD police officers were charged with offenses related to ticket fixing whereby they "fixed" tickets issued to family and friends. [129] The head of New York's largest police union defended ticket-fixing by the NYPD, saying it was "long standing practice at all levels of the department."