OTTAWA — The special team set up to review police investigations for the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women began issuing subpoenas for police files only in the final months of its mandate, despite the inquiry’s promise that its review of policing was a centrepiece of its work. Early in its mandate, the national inquiry faced criticism from family members of missing and murdered women who felt it wasn’t focusing enough on police missteps during investigations involving Indigenous women. The forensic review team still drew a number of conclusions about police investigations based on the files it received, which included more than 130,000 documents and nearly 600,000 pages. “Deaths and disappearances of Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people are marked by indifference,” the final report reads. It’s unclear whether anything will happen with the files the inquiry subpoenaed but did not receive in time.

Source: National Post June 04, 2019 23:15 UTC