[Image-1] Halifax’s Board of Police Commissioners wants 10 years worth of internal audits from the police department released to the public, mostly so they don’t have to read any more embarrassing reports about themselves in the press. At a special meeting held Thursday afternoon, the board listened to HRP chief Jean-Michel Blais, deputy chief Bill […]
Absence of evidence
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Drug audit “exposes serious problems” for Halifax police
[Image-1] Last week The Coast published an investigation into a previously-unreleased drug exhibit audit done by Halifax Police that had found high rates of missing evidence, insecure storage and poor evidence continuity. As a result, HRM’s Board of Police Commissioners called an emergency meeting this week and several defence lawyers in Halifax are now wondering […]
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Board of Police Commissioners calls special meeting about drug exhibit audit
[Image-1] A special meeting of HRM’s Board of Police Commissioners has been called for this week after an internal police audit found over half of the Criminal Investigation Division’s drug exhibits might be missing. Completed last summer, and revised with a further investigation this past spring, the audit was released to The Coast two weeks […]
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Halifax police release statement about drug exhibit audit
[Image-1] In response to The Coast’s cover story this week, Halifax Regional Police and the Halifax district RCMP just released a public statement on the drug exhibit audit that took place last year. It’s printed below in its entirety. The police have also provided a “final” version of the audit as a PDF. Attached at […]
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Continuity errors
An internal audit by Halifax Regional Police has uncovered the department’s shocking habit of losing track of drugs and money seized as evidence. Conducted last summer and released to The Coast under the Freedom of Information Act, the audit found a nearly 90 percent failure rate within the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) for evidence continuity. […]