B.C.’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner says it’s planning to release the results of an inquiry into police use of force in the province later this year, but it’s still crunching numbers in the meantime.



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Victoria police use-of-force data show Indigenous ‘overrepresentation’

New data from VicPD, released following an order from the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner, shows Indigenous and Black people were overrepresented in police use-of-force incidents between 2018 and 2023.

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Victoria police disproportionately using force against Indigenous and Black people, data shows

Data from 2018 to 2023 show Indigenous people were involved in 17 per cent of cases involving use of force with Victoria police

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This included the use of spit and bite guards and threatening to use a baton.

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PSNI use force against children aged 12 and under 56 times in one year

B.C.’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner says it’s planning to release the results of an inquiry into police use of force in the province later this year, but it’s still crunching numbers in the meantime.

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Victoria police use-of-force data show Indigenous ’overrepresentation’

The Victoria Police Department has released race-based data showing an “overrepresentation” of Indigenous people in cases involving police use of force over a six-year period. But the force says the overrepresentation is also reflected in the “justice system overall,” and the data doesn’t mean officers are choosing to use force “on one specific ethnicity over another.” The data was released Wednesday in response to an order in November from the …

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VicPD released their use of force data as a result of a provincial inquiry

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Victoria

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Victoria police data shows they used force 1,600 times over 6 years

Nearly a quarter of reports of sexual offences received by police last year were of offences against children. This is reflected in new statistics from the state police chief. Reports of infanticide increased by 22%. Sexual offences reported to police last year increased by 10%, compared to the previous year. There were 568 reports of offences against children, 126 of which were reported. That's a nearly 6% increase in such notifications, compar…

Tæplega fjórðungur tilkynninga um kynferðisbrot sem bárust lögreglu í fyrra var um brot gegn börnum. Þetta kemur fram í nýrri tölfræði ríkislögreglustjóra. Tilkynningum um barnaníð fjölgaði um 22%.Kynferðisbrotum, sem tilkynnt voru til lögreglu í fyrra, fjölgaði um 10%, samanborið við árið á undan. Tilkynningar voru 568 talsins, þar af 126 um brot gegn börnum. Það er tæplega 6% fjölgun slíkra tilkynninga, samanborið við meðaltal síðustu þriggja …

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40 reports of child abuse on the police tape

As Victoria Police (VicPD) saw a decrease in calls for service between 2018 and 2023, the number of use of force incidents remained about the same. VicPD says it received an order from the B.C. Human Rights Commissioner in November 2024 to provide use-of-force data between 2018 to 2023, focusing on race-based data. From 2018 to 2023, the total calls for service for VicPD decreased each year, with the exception of a slight increase of 56 in 2021,…

Victoria police use-of-force data show Indigenous ‘overrepresentation’

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