Useful Links and Resources About Police Accountability

Check out our growing collection of useful links and resources about police accountability, including related organizations, government resources, guides, and legal information. Is there something that should be on this list, but isn’t? Contribute at talkrights [at] ccla [dot] org.

OVERSIGHT AGENCIES

You can find a listing of Canada’s Police Oversight Agencies here. Note that the only police service that operates in the territories is the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

GUIDES AND RESOURCES: HOW TO FILE A COMPLAINT

RCMP

• Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Ontario

• Office of the Independent Police Review Director

Quebec

• Commissaire à la déontologie policière

British Columbia

• Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner

Alberta

• Alberta Solicitor General

Manitoba

• Law Enforcement Review Agency

New Brunswick

• New Brunswick Police Commission

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Public Complaints Commission

Nova Scotia

• Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner

Prince Edward Island

• Office of the Police Commissioner of Prince Edward Island

Saskatchewan

• Public Complaints Commission

Northwest Territories

• Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Nunavut

• Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Yukon

• Royal Canadian Mounted Police

ASSISTANCE WITH FILING COMPLAINTS

• The Centre for Police Accountability
• Toronto Police Accountability Coalition

Note that most legal clinics will also be able to help you fill out a police complaint. Find a list of organizations that might be able to help here.

PUBLICATIONS, RESEARCH AND FURTHER READING

Racial Profiling

• Profiling and Racial Profiling: An Interactive exercise (College Quarterly)
• Racial Profiling Fact Sheet Series (African Canadian Community Coalition for Racial Profiling)
• The Impact of Racial Profiling (Metropolis British Columbia: Centre for Excellence for Research on Immigration and Diversity)
• The Role of the Judiciary in Racial Profiling (Munyonzwe Hamalengwa)
• E­-Racing Racial Profiling (Alberta Law Review)
• Racial Profiling: Racism in Practice? (Zool Suleman, Suleman & Co, Canadian Immigration Lawyers)
• Future of Policing: Be Ready to Change and Adapt (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
• Moving Beyond ‘Driving While Black in Canada’: Race, Suspect Description and Selection (Ottawa Law Review)
• Racial Profiling and Systemic Discrimination of Racialized Youth (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse)
• Draft Report of the Board/Service Joint Working Group on Police­ Race Relations for public consultation (Toronto Police Services Board)
• Proving Racial Profiling: Perspectives for Civil Cases (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse)
• Inequality before the Law: The Canadian Experience of “Racial Profiling” (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
• Dedicated to the Safety of Montrealers (Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal)

Use of Force

• Police Use of Force in Ontario: An Examination of Data from the Special Investigations Unit (African Canadian Legal Clinic)

Carding

• Can I See Your ID? The Policing of Youth Homelessness in Toronto
  (The Homeless Hub Report Series)
• Toronto Police Accountability Bulletin No. 85 (Toronto Police Accountability Coalition)

Kettling

• Policing the Right to Protest: G20 Systemic Review Report (Office of the Independent Police Review Director)