"No one tells us what to do, and no one should tell us what to do," Tessler told CBC. Zane Tessler, the executive director of the Independent Investigation Unit, is both a former Crown attorney and a former defence lawyer.
Though it isn't, Sinclair said the IIU should be headed by a judge, who "is totally independent and doesn't have to worry about job security or doesn't have to worry about the impact of the community upon their careers, or impact of their decisions upon their careers." 'No one tells us what to do': IIU director "They have a vested interest in ensuring that they don't tick off the city police and they don't get the RCMP officers mad at them, because they will be accused of conducting a witch hunt or they will be accused of being unfair to them by being fair." "They're part of the Department of Justice, and the Department of Justice has a working relationship with the city police force or with the RCMP."Īs a result, their objectivity could be affected, he said. " will tell you that they're not part of the City of Winnipeg police department or the RCMP, which is true, but they're part of the government of Manitoba," Sinclair said. He also says those doing the investigations and those being investigated are - in one way or another - too close to each other for comfort. They don't reveal what the evidence is that they've gathered." The unit's information comes from "what they're told by the police" and "what they're told by witnesses who are called by the police to give them reports," Sinclair said.
Specifically, he's concerned that the evidence presented is filtered through the police agency under investigation. "It's the lack of transparency, I think, that really drives me around the bend," said Sinclair, who also chaired the more recent national Truth and Reconciliation Commission. They have a vested interest in ensuring that they don't tick off the city police - Murray Sinclair Charges were also not recommended in a March 2020 police shooting. In two of the three, the report recommended that no charges be laid against the officer involved. In the past two years, the unit has investigated multiple fatal Winnipeg Police Service involved shootings. In 2015, the province created the Independent Investigation Unit of Manitoba. It included a recommendation to create a special investigative unit, independent of both police and the Crown, to handle any complaints "where possible criminal acts are alleged against the police, or where a person dies or suffers serious injury in an incident involving a police officer," the report says. Friend, cousin reflect on life, death and legacy of Helen Betty Osborne, 50 years after her murder.30 years after Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, too little done to protect Indigenous women and girls, critics say.The report made 296 recommendations to guide the province's efforts to reduce the presence of racism in the justice system. He was co-commissioner of the inquiry, which was mandated to probe the role that racism played in the 1971 homicide of Cree teenager Helen Betty Osborne and the 1988 police shooting of Indigenous leader John Joseph Harper. Sinclair spoke to the CBC about the 30th anniversary of the release of the report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry this month. "I can't think of an instance where they've truly done a transparent thorough investigation that has convinced me … that their decision is the right one in the circumstances." "I don't have a lot of faith in the Independent Investigation Unit that's in place right now to look into police officer conduct," Sinclair told CBC Manitoba. Former senator Murray Sinclair says Manitoba's Independent Investigation Unit is neither independent enough nor transparent enough to properly investigate police-involved fatal shootings.Īs a result, the former associate chief judge of Manitoba does not trust any of the recent rulings made by the IIU, he said.
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