An ongoing inquiry into the handling of a complaint filed against Calgary police officers following the violent arrest of Godfred Addai-Nyamekye has raised questions about the thoroughness of the investigation. The complaint, stemming from Addai-Nyamekye's arrest in December 2013, was not fully investigated as Addai-Nyamekye had intended.
The inquiry examining the violent arrest of Calgarian Godfred Addai-Nyamekye is looking at the police complaint investigation and why officers who left him in the cold were not included in his complaint, despite his insistence that was his intention.An inquiry examining a complaint investigation stemming from the violent arrest of Calgarian Godfred Addai-Nyamekye was adjourned Wednesday until January.
"The system may have failed in having too linear a definition or belief of what withdrawal was," Leggatt said.Leggatt said he believes the officers identified in the complaint — not by name, but by their choice to leave Addai-Nyamekye far from home and in the cold — should have been investigated. He was dropped off far from his home by officers — referred to in the hearing as the transport officers — in the middle of winter and wearing only light clothing.
Several Calgary Police Service members testified they believed the officers should have been investigated. Some testified about their frustration and individual efforts to have the officers investigated. After Addai-Nyamekye was dropped off by police, he called dispatch, complained and asked for help. Lindsay was the responding officer whoAddai-Nyamekye was the first witness at the inquiry and testified last week that the experience prompted his post-traumatic stress disorder.Caitlin Dick, a director on the board of the Criminal Trial Lawyers' Association, pressed Leggatt about the complaint being walked back, stating complaints that are withdrawn have to go through a formal process.
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