Commissaire à la déontologie policière – Québec Office

Services

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Forms available online.

The main services provided by the Commissaire in accordance with the Police Act (R.S.Q., c. P-13.1) are the following :
• Help citizens file complaints;
• Determine, after initial review, the appropriate way to handle complaints;
• Hold conciliation sessions;
• Conduct ethics investigations;
• Issue a reasoned written ruling when a case is to be closed;
• Review, at a complainant’s request, decisions to close a case before an ethics investigation has been completed;
• Summon the respondents to the police ethics committee (ethics tribunal) when there is sufficient evidence of a derogatory act;
• Make appropriate representations before the ethics tribunal and common-law courts;
• Convey to the ethics tribunal the information and observations needed to examine the requests for apology presented to it.

Access
• Our offices are open Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• You can reach us from anywhere in Québec through a toll-free line.
• You may leave a message at any time in our voice mailbox.
• You may contact us at any time and exercise your ethics right online via our website.
• Conciliations, investigations and ethics tribunal hearings are held in all Québec regions.
• Our conciliators, investigators and lawyers can make themselves available, if necessary, outside working hours.
• The Commissaire’s offices and our services are adapted to the needs of disabled persons. We attempt, as much as possible, to respect preferences on the choice of a solution appropriate to their disability.

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