The public made 410 complaints about police officer conduct during the “Freedom Convoy” demonstrations in Ottawa last year, but nearly all of them were dismissed.
The Ottawa police board’s 2022 annual report says public complaints nearly doubled from the previous year, with an 88-per-cent increase overall, and 94 per cent more complaints relating to police conduct.
Of the 410 complaints about police officer conduct during the protests, 390 were dismissed or “screened out” by the office of the police review director. Ottawa police were sharply criticized for their poor handling of the protests, including during last fall’s public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to clear the streets around Parliament Hill.
The occupation came to a halt after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, granting police and governments extraordinary powers to bring the demonstrations to an end.
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