The city’s police service and its board are working towards making progress on a number of the recommendations made by a provincial government watchdog.
The first-year report on recommendations from the Office of the Independent Police Review Director was presented at the Thunder Bay Police Service Board’s monthly meeting Tuesday.
The OIPRD called for police to wear name tags on the front of their uniforms and officials say the force is going to implement that direction this year once the budget is approved.
Another recommendation called for the implementation of in-car cameras and body-worn cameras, something the local police force has tried in a pilot project. Officials say a full actual front-line deployment of a camera system will occur sometime this year.
The first-year report to the police board says they have acted on another of the OIPRD recommendations to update their missing persons’ policies and procedures.
The OIPRD report was released in Thunder Bay on December 12th, 2018.
You can read the full first-year report from the Police Services Board meeting by clicking HERE and scrolling to page 32.
The OIPRD also called for the reinvestigation of nine Indigenous deaths.
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