The Nova Scotia RCMP says it will finally issue a formal apology next year to African Nova Scotians for the harm caused by the longtime use of street ...
“I know this apology is long overdue,” Dennis Daley, the commanding officer of the Nova Scotia RCMP, said in a news release Tuesday.
Street checks have been defined as an interaction or observation whereby personal and/or identifying information is collected by an officer and entered into a database. after former Chief Justice Michael MacDonald submitted a legal opinion to the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission that the practice was illegal.public apology to the Black communityPromising to change and do better, Kinsella offered the African Nova Scotia community an apology for generations of negative experiences with the police and the specific police practice of street checks.
The RCMP, which shares policing jurisdiction in HRM with the Halifax police, has long been pressured to make a similar apology.The 14 consultations, which were recommended by a steering committee struck to move the apology work forward, are being organized in African Nova Scotian communities. The sessions, which will also inform an action plan that will follow the apology, are being hosted by local residents and attended by members of the Nova Scotia RCMP’s senior leadership team.
In addition to RCMP employees, the committee’s membership is comprised of community leaders, including Rev. Lennett Anderson, Vanessa Fells, a member of the African Nova Scotian Decade for People of African Descent Coalition, and DeRico Symonds, an avid advocate for positive change and exceptional youth program developer and youth community worker.
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