Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs discusses the challenges facing the force, including calls to add 'femicide' to the Criminal Code and the implementation of recommendations from the Abdirahman Abdi inquest.
In a year-end interview, Ottawa police Chief Eric Stubbs said action on the Abdirahman Abdi inquest recommendations will take time, and supported calls to add 'femicide' to the Criminal Code.Ottawa Police Service Chief Eric Stubbs says a majority of residents want to see more officers in their neighbourhoods, and a three-year staffing plan will do just that.
the long-awaited inquest In a year-end interview, police Chief Eric Stubbs sat down with CBC News to talk about some of the challenges facing the force and plans for the year ahead.The term refers to killings of women, especially when they are motivated by misogyny or gender-based hatred. Asked why police made the decision to call the Zabarylo case femicide, Stubbs gave a simple answer.to the Criminal Code, saying it acknowledges there's a widespread issue with violence against women and would ensure that 'sentencing reflects the seriousness of this crime.' 'Any homicide is tragic so I'm not discounting any other homicides, but when you have something like this — when it is gender-based violence and we see that frequency that this occurs — I think it's worthy,' he said. Stubbs called domestic violence an 'epidemic' that is overwhelming the officers in the force's intimate partner violence unit.On the Abdi inquest This month, a coroner's jury found that the 2016 death of Abdirahman Abdi was a homicide. Abdi died a day after a violent arrest by two Ottawa police officers during a mental health crisis. Almost half of those recommendations were directed at the Ottawa Police Service (OPS). Stubbs said acting on them will take time. He said OPS plans to identify a staff member within the next couple weeks who will be the project leader of implementing the recommendations. That will mean working with stakeholders, building an action plan and following through.'We don't want to rush to say that we've completed the recommendations,' he sai
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