LETTER: Doesn’t add up

To the editor:

In response to “Incident is serious” (letter to the editor, Sept.28 ):

The Thunder Bay police services board is a five-member civilian body that oversees the Thunder Bay police service.

How can they oversee the police service when they try and legitimize in an open letter that the Office of the Independent Police Director will review an internal investigation by the police chief into a retracted email?

How can the open letter claim, that at the request of the police chief  “and in the interests of accountability and transparency, the OIPRD will review the investigation and the chief’s actions at its conclusion,”?when there is no legislative mandate for the OIPRD to have any
involvement in internal complaints?

So what is the purpose of sending the internal investigation to the OIPRD if it is not in their mandate to review an internal investigation?
Maybe there should be an internal investigation of the Thunder Bay Police Services Board.


Henry Wojak,
Thunder Bay