{"id":90664,"date":"2017-02-21T21:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T02:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=90664"},"modified":"2017-02-21T21:34:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T02:34:47","slug":"court-ruling-forces-end-of-probe-into-police-misconduct-in-abbotsford-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/21\/court-ruling-forces-end-of-probe-into-police-misconduct-in-abbotsford-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Court ruling forces end of probe into police misconduct in Abbotsford, B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_90666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90666\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15078694_1396633180354465_6917383790685700791_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90666\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15078694_1396633180354465_6917383790685700791_n.jpg\" alt=\"British Columbia's police complaints commissioner is dropping an investigation into more than 100 misconduct allegations against police officers in Abbotsford. (Photo: Abbotsford Police Department\/ Facebook)\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15078694_1396633180354465_6917383790685700791_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15078694_1396633180354465_6917383790685700791_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/15078694_1396633180354465_6917383790685700791_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-90666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Columbia&#8217;s police complaints commissioner is dropping an investigation into more than 100 misconduct allegations against police officers in Abbotsford. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AbbyPoliceDept\">Abbotsford Police Department\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VICTORIA \u2013British Columbia&#8217;s police complaints commissioner is dropping an investigation into more than 100 misconduct allegations against police officers in Abbotsford.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner says in a statement that it is discontinuing the investigations because court decisions prevent investigators from accessing key information it needs to probe the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The commission says the courts have ruled investigators looking into police misconduct are not allowed to access information which could identify confidential informants.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into members of the Abbotsford Police Department began in 2013 after the force&#8217;s chief received information alleging that a constable was involved with criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2015, the commissioner&#8217;s office said the investigation involved 17 members and 148 misconduct allegations, including that some members used inaccurate statements to obtained search warrants.<\/p>\n<p>The office now says 122 misconduct allegations have been dropped, but investigations will continue into 15 allegations involving four members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICTORIA \u2013British Columbia&#8217;s police complaints commissioner is dropping an investigation into more than 100 misconduct allegations against police officers in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":90666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[15580,15581],"class_list":["post-90664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-british-coulmbia-police","tag-misconduct-allegations","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}