Jim Perrin isn’t happy with the results of the final Drug Exhibit Audit, but he’s confident Halifax Regional Police will be a “better police department” because of its findings. The Criminal Investigations Division superintendent presented his final audit update to the Board of Police Commissioners on Tuesday, closing the book on a two-year black eye […]
Continuity errors
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Police still looking for $8,900 in misplaced cash
Progress is being made tracking down thousands of dollars that went missing from the police department’s evidence control system. Halifax Regional Police has located over 90 percent of the $104,289 in cash evidence that couldn’t be found in last summer’s drug exhibit audit. In an update to the Board of Police Commissioners on Monday, chief […]
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Police trying to determine who owns interest earned off seized drug cash
The cops don’t want it, but what to do with it and who owns it is proving difficult to figure out. Halifax Regional Police has generated $12,378 over the last four years by depositing seized drug money into an interest-bearing bank account. Last year’s Drug Exhibit Audit recommended that practice stop immediately—and the funds be […]
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Police board orders a decade of audits released to the public
[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 […]
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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. […]