Victoria police misconduct fuels appeal for convicted drug dealer

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A man who trafficked drugs in Victoria is trying to overturn his conviction by arguing the police officer who was a key witness at his trial cannot be trusted.

that charges were stayed in a separate case where three men were accused of trafficking millions of dollars in drugs. Those legal proceedings came to a halt after Crown prosecutors learned one of the officers “may have been involved in corrupt practice,” VicPD said in a news release.

“My understanding is that there’s no other files currently before the courts that are being impacted as a result of Const. Ferris’s misconduct,” Victoria police Chief Del Manak said Wednesday. The appeal seeks to target the credibility of Ferris’s testimony about when and where he found the key, bolstered by the misconduct allegations that came years after Schirmer’s arrest.

“Every case that this officer has touched now, given the allegations against him, will be under a microscope and there’s people in jail that may get released as a result,” Chris Lewis said in an interview on Wednesday. A new report says British Columbia's wine industry is anticipating "catastrophic crop losses" of up to 99 per cent of typical grape production due to January's intense cold snap.Naturopaths in B.C. are calling on the provincial government to expand their prescription capabilities to safer supply drugs, with dozens enrolling in online training with an addiction support program.

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