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RSS FeedsOntario´s Special Investigations Unit searching for new director as Tony Loparco steps down
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

14 march 2019 04:09:49

 
Ontario´s Special Investigations Unit searching for new director as Tony Loparco steps down
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit — the often embattled and scrutinized provincial police watchdog — is looking for a new director.Tony Loparco, who has spent five-and-a-half years at the helm and is the longest-serving SIU director, is leaving his post at the end of the month, an SIU spokesperson confirms.The departure leaves the Ministry of the Attorney General needing to fill a position that’s been called “one of the toughest public-sector posts there is” — leading the agency that oversees investigations into police-involved fatalities, serious injuries and allegations of sexual assault.The vacancy comes after a major, and at times highly critical, Court of Appeal judge’s review of the SIU and its functions, and as Queen’s Park considers new policing legislation that would weaken the police watchdog, including lowering expectations around when it must be called in to investigate officers.Last month, Doug Ford’s government unveiled its rewrite of the previous government’s police laws, which had granted the SIU greater powers and was dubbed “the most anti-police legislation in Canadian history” by community safety minister Sylvia Jones. One of Ford’s first moves after becoming premier in July was the 11th-hour halt of the new legislation, scheduled to come into force the next day.Read more:What’s changing in Ford’s new police oversight law — and why it mattersOpinion | Edward Keenan: The Tories are keeping key parts of the Ontario law they call ‘anti-police’Ford government unveils plan to ‘fix’ police oversight, limit SIU mandateAttorney General Caroline Mulroney — who will have final say on Loparco’s successor — called the SIU process “ridiculously opaque” at last month’s press conference unveiling her government’s new policing laws. Proposed changes to the watchdog’s mandate would inc ...


 
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