Police accountability a top issue during town hall on WRPS body-worn cameras
CBC
People asked pointed questions of police about accountability during a town hall on body-worn cameras Tuesday night. Waterloo regional police began piloting 70 body-worn cameras out of its North Division in June, along with 40 in-car video systems.
During the town hall, hosted by the Coalition of Muslim Women of KW, Superintendent Shaena Morris said the cameras should be turned on during any kind of enforcement or investigation.
But community member Maedith Radlein questioned how officers will be held accountable if they aren't using their cameras when they're supposed to.
"Very often the consequence is suspension with pay, and as a racialized person who has seen the effect of uncontrolled police work … there needs to be stronger consequences, because when somebody's life is taken, or somebody is injured, that is a permanent injury and consequence to that individual or family," said Radlein.
In response, police Chief Bryan Larkin said there needs to be changes made at a provincial level to "modernize" the current system of police discipline and bolster public trust in policing.
"To be very candid, it's very difficult in Ontario to terminate a police officer, we're a heavily unionized work environment, our employment format is quite frankly, very antiquated," said Larkin, who also heads the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police.
In July, the association called on the province to make "substantive and sweeping" changes to the current discipline system, including suspension without pay.
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