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The Office of the Independent Police Review Board handed down 44 recommendations to the Thunder Bay Police Service in December 2018 after its report found system racism at an institutional level in the service. ....
In January 2020, the investigative team was on the scene of a Victoria Avenue East building for the re-investigation into the circumstances surrounding the 2014 death of Shania Bob. (File). THUNDER BAY - A report on the reinvestigations into nine sudden deaths involving Indigenous people in the city of Thunder Bay that has been delayed several times is expected to be complete by June. The reinvestigations were one of the recommendations in the Office of the Independent Police Review Director’s 2018 report Broken Trust: Indigenous People and the Thunder Bay Police Service, which found systemic racism at an institutional level in the police service. ....
Staff photo The pandemic has been a “real setback” as officials reinvestigate the deaths of nine Indigenous people in Thunder Bay. Retired OPP inspector Ken Leppert tells us in an effort to keep the health and safety of the investigators and witnesses a top priority, it has caused some delays beyond their control. “There’s a number of investigative steps that are also being delayed as a result of the pandemic that in some cases are outside of our investigative team,” explains Leppert. The former police inspector is optimistic the investigations will be finished in short order, but he could not give a timeline but indicates they are “close to the end.” ....
The pandemic has been a "real setback" as officials reinvestigate the deaths of nine Indigenous people in Thunder Bay. Retired OPP inspector Ken Leppe. ....