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By Darryl Greer British Columbia’s police complaint commissioner says his office is gearing up to conduct systemic investigations in an expanded mandate that would go beyond individual cases of police misconduct in hopes of reducing complaints and improving public confidence in law enforcement. The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner released its latest annual report this week, outlining how the oversight body dealt with more files in the last fiscal year than at any time since 2020. The office handles complaints about police misconduct for 15 jurisdictions in B.C., most of them municipal, including Vancouver, Surrey, New Westminster, Delta, Abbotsford and four municipal departments on Vancouver Island. Commissioner Prabhu Rajan said in an interview Tuesday that the increase in files was due, in part, to the Surrey Police Service replacing… <\/p>\n

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By Darryl Greer British Columbia’s police complaint commissioner says his office is gearing up to conduct systemic investigations in an expanded mandate that would go beyond individual cases of police misconduct in hopes of reducing complaints and improving public confidence in law enforcement. The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner released its latest annual report this week, outlining how the oversight body dealt with more files in the last fiscal year than at any time since 2020. The office handles complaints about police misconduct for 15 jurisdictions in B.C., most of them municipal, including Vancouver, Surrey, New Westminster, Delta, Abbotsford and four municipal departments on Vancouver Island. Commissioner Prabhu Rajan said in an interview Tuesday that the increase in files was due, in part, to the Surrey Police Service replacing... <\/p>\n

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