Alberta police support greater transparency

AMBER BRACKEN/The Canadian Press

Edmonton’s police chief, Dale McFee, said he has been calling for a system of oversight that takes discipline out of the hands of police forces. He said that could include increased transparency that would see discipline decisions automatically released to the public. The Edmonton Police Service publishes a list of decisions that are available upon request, but that list includes no details other than the date of the decision and the broad category of offence, such as “discreditable conduct.”

John Orr, the president of the Calgary Police Association, the union representing the force’s officers, said he supports greater transparency but he said there needs to be a balance.“Are we talking about every single complaint received by the police service having the names of the officers published? Then I would suggest that might be going a little too far,” said Mr. Orr, who worked in the homicide unit before becoming president of the association last year.

The court ruled that only decisions involving a conviction for offences under provincial or federal laws needed to be disclosed, concluding that releasing other decisions would be an unreasonable invasion of the officers' privacy. The decision cited provisions within provincial privacy legislation that said employers must protect the personal information of their employees.

It's not up to the Alberta police.

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