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Complaint Rejected by
the Police Deontology
- against the Assembly
National Security 970422 970264?
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- Commissaire
- à la déontologie
- policière
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Sainte-Foy, April
22, 1997
RECOMMENDED
- M. Serge Joseph Adrien Bourassa-Lacombe
- 103, rue Crescent, app105
- LENNOXVILLE (Quebec) J1M 2G3
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- Dear Sir,
The present one follows upon our letter of April 16,
1997.
We acknowledge receipt of your writing of April 5, 1997 reporting the control of
the agents Hervé Fortier, number 4563, and Jacques Quinn, number 4516, members of the
Sûreté du Quebec.
After having examined the pled facts, we are of the
opinion that the behaviour of an necessary investigation is not had regard to the circumstances
and, in accordance to the powers which confers to us the article 65 of the Law on the police
organization, we refuse to hold it for the following reasons:
in his writing that we
received on April 11, 1997, Mr Serge Joseph Adrien Bourassa-Lacombe tells this part of the
day of March 21, 1997, where
he went to the national Assembly to attend a parliamentary debate.
With its departure,
he was challenged by the agent Herve Fortier which invited him to its office and where he
introduced his fellow-member Jacques Quin to him. The plaintiff says that he accepted the
invitation of the Fortier agent and that he lent itself readily to the maintenance which
followed, during which he was informed that he was not in a state of arrest.
On his side, the
plaintiff had the occasion to explain inter alia the raison
of being of the foundation
which bears its name:
«...
to stop physical and/or mental torture in the medical field in addition to convincing
the good police to stop the bad one, good education to stop the bad one and good medicine
to stop the bad one...»
The complaint of Mr
Bourassa-Lacombe is with the effect that one of the two police officers would have
telephoned his father, little after this day of March 21, 1997, to require of him «if he
had known me mental sick for two years» the plaintiff pleads that they misused him, he
asks «public excuses» as well as a «flat-rate amount» being versed to the
foundation which bears its name, «in order to bring closer the good police towards the
good citizen...»
on the question of the payment of a flat-rate amount to Serge
Bourassa-Lacombe's Fondation, it is part of the complaint for which the Commissioner does not have any jurisdiction. A complaint by way of
compensation comes under the civil field;
for the remainder, we
want in no manner of offending Mr Bourassa-Lacombe or of causing some injury to him that
it is, but surely that he will know that its character does not pass unperceived, as well
by its appearance as by its remarks, which is not badly in oneself.
In addition, for the
police officers who are responsible for the security of the national Assembly, Mr
Bourassa-Lacombe is a person which can represent a certain interest, at least to require a
minimum of checks. If it is exact that they communicated with the family of the plaintiff,
this step was fully justified, with the reason for the public interest.
We understand that
the plaintiff could be upset by this phone call made to his father, but it seems to us in
the circumstances that the police officers showed understanding in their
behaviour.
You have the right to
make revise this decision by the Committee of police deontology. If you
want to exert this right, you will have to deposit, in the 15 days of the notification of
this decision, a written declaration containing an explanat ion called upon with the support of your
request for revision to the following address:
- Le Greffe
- Comité de déontologie policière
- Édifice SSQ - Tour Saint-Laurent
- 2525, boul. Laurier, bureau A-200, 2e étage
- Sainte-Foy (Quebec) G1V 4Z6
- Fax: 418-528-0987
This 15 days deadline is required, i.e. the
Committee must have received your request at the latest the 15th day following
the reception by you of the decision of the Commissioner.
Sincerely yours
The assistant commissioner,
- Louise Marcotte, lawyer
- LM/db
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- 1200, Route de l'Église, RC. 20
- Sainte-Foy (Quebec)
- G1V 4Y9
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- Fax : (418) 528-9473
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- For the wrath of God is
revealed from heaven against
- all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men,
- who hold the truth in
unrighteousness;
- Because that which may be
known of God is manifest in them;
- for God hath shewed it unto
them.
- Romans 1:18-19 (King James
Version)
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