High Ranking Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

[Brian Lowe]

Yes. And some others just suck at their jobs and, through years of supervisory neglect, develop a sense of entitlement to continue to.

Or the other option. milk the system from day 36 on the job. and clearly there are some kids who have received the briefing on this move. interestingly. my job's return volley, which i sort of don't blame them, is they get a doc to counter their doc. whilst tied up in process some of the "sick" end up not getting paid. the sad part of this, is some of the folks, are really unwell. and get boned the same way as the malingerers (alleged or actual) is shit. no straight line here.

 

[Good2Golf]

Sad that the CDE/collateral damage estimate (‘the #’) isn’t zero in these affairs…both civilian and honest members of respective forces.

 

[lenaitch]

In Canada we still have a ways to go to figure this out. Body cams are new here and few police have them yet. It will take years for legal departments to figure out acceptable standards for public interest disclosure.

Any departmental policy I have seen on this (which, admittedly, isn't extensive) indicates that if a person is a subject in a recorded image they can make an FOI request. It will take the courts a while to sort out the 'reasonable expectation of privacy' implications. I would think venue will have a lot to do with it. There is generally no right to privacy in a public place but inside a home may be considered differently. They will also have to consider potential evidentiary impacts, disclosure, SIU (Ontario), etc.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Any departmental policy I have seen on this (which, admittedly, isn't extensive) indicates that if a person is a subject in a recorded image they can make an FOI request. It will take the courts a while to sort out the 'reasonable expectation of privacy' implications. I would think venue will have a lot to do with it. There is generally no right to privacy in a public place but inside a home may be considered differently. They will also have to consider potential evidentiary impacts, disclosure, SIU (Ontario), etc.

If any cop is caught doing something bad on camera they could always just get a doctor's note not to show up in court

 

[Halifax Tar]

It's the same thing in the CAF.

Someone with MELs so severe they can't work because they can barely stand but they can post pictures of themselves off-roading and pushing stuck 4x4s out of the mud. Or post pictures of themselves standing for 8 hours on a boat in a fishing tournament. I may or may not have bumped into someone skiing this week who is on sick leave because they're practically disabled.


The detective wouldn't have a difficult time getting the psychologist to explain that performing in a thrash-metal band helps his mental health.
It's really not surprising from the OPS.

Yup I've seen this too.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Meanwhile, The Peelers are under the microscope:

Independent review says London police sexist, racist and homophobic​

Report was commissioned after Sarah Everard was raped, killed by officer​

London police have lost the confidence of the public because of deep-seated racism, misogyny and homophobia, according to an independent review commissioned after a young woman was raped and killed by a serving officer.

The Metropolitan Police Service, which has more than 34,000 officers and is Britain's biggest police force, must "change itself" or risk being broken up, the report published Tuesday said.

"It is not our job as the public to keep ourselves safe from the police. It is the police's job to keep us safe as the public," said Louise Casey, an expert on victims' rights and social welfare who led the review. "Far too many Londoners have now lost faith in policing to do that."

The findings ratchet up the pressure for a major overhaul of the Metropolitan Police after a series of scandals involving its treatment of women and minorities. In a preliminary report released in October, Casey found that the department had failed to properly vet and train officers, and had allowed officers to remain on the job even after they were accused of domestic abuse or racial harassment.

Part of the problem is that there is a culture of denial in the department, with leaders adopting a "we know best" attitude that leads them to dismiss outside critics, the review found. Funding cuts, along with the decision to close local police stations and effectively end community policing, also contribute to the situation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/london-police-review-sexist-racist-homophobic-1.6785298