The Supreme Court of Canada released its decision today in Vancouver (City) v. Ward, a case in which the CCLA intervened to argue in favour of an award of damages for breach of Charter rights. Mr. Ward was detained and strip searched by police after they received a tip that someone matching his description planned to throw a pie in the Prime Minister’s face at a public event. Mr. Ward had been mistakenly identified and was released over four hours after his arrest. The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the lower courts’ rulings that Mr. Ward is entitled to monetary damages for breach of his s.8 Charter right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Penelope Chester Canadian Civil Liberties Association Phone: (416) 363-0321 Fax: (416) 861-1291 Toronto, ON – July 22, 2010 – The CCLA welcomes the announcement by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) that it will be conducting a systemic investigation of G20 policing. The CCLA is pleased that the issues to be investigated by the OIPRD are those identified by the CCLA in its institutional police complaints. The announcement comes just one week after the CCLA filed the five institutional police complaints, and on the same day it filed 78 individual police complaints.
July 22, 2010 — The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) filed 78 individual public police complaints with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD) today. OIPRD is the civilian agency tasked with accepting and investigating complaints about police policy and the conduct of police officers in Ontario. The CCLA has called on OIPRD to conduct to launch a full review of G20 policing in general, and of the abovementioned conduct in particular, under s.57 of the Police Services Act. The CCLA has also called on OIPRD to exercise its full powers under Part II of the Public Inquiries Act, R.S.O. 1990, Ch. P.41 in aid of this investigation. In light of the strong public interest in the issue, the CCLA believes that, as part of the systemic review, opportunities for public deputations on G20 policing would be appropriate. Read the CCLA’s Letter to Gerry McNeilly, Independent Police Review Director of Ontario, regarding our five institutional complaints and 78 individual public complaints, dated July 22, 2010 The 78 individual police complaints complement and add to the 5 institutional police complaints that the CCLA filed on its own behalf regarding G20 policing. Those complaints related to give specific incidents which, in the opinion of the CCLA, involved abusive or unlawful police conduct. These include: (i) the dispersal of peaceful protesters at Queen’s Park on the afternoon of June 26; (ii) the detention and mass arrest of individuals on the l’Esplanade on the evening of June 26; (iii) the arrests and excessive use of force by police outside the Eastern Ave. detention centre on the morning of June 27; (iv) the detention and mass arrest of individuals at Queen St. W. and Spadina Ave. on the evening of June 27; and (v) the conditions of detention and the deniaof due process rights at the Eastern Ave. detention centre throughout the weekend. Read the CCLA Systemic Public Police Complaint Regarding G20-related policing, dated July 15, 2010. Included below are exerpts from the 78 individual police complaints filed by the CCLA on behalf of members of the public:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Canadian Civil Liberties Association Phone: (416) 363-0321 PRESS RELEASE: On July 13, 2010, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed five (5) complaints with the Office of the Independent Police Review Director (OIPRD), regarding policing of the Toronto 2010 G20 summit. CCLA’s complaints allege that the following police actions contravened the Criminal Code, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and Canadian and international standards of policing:
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