O.P.P Commissioner Boniface Summoned

Ipperwash Commissioner Sidney Linden summons O.P.P Commissioner Gwen Boniface to attend the inquiry and provide disciplinary documents against two O.P.P officers, Constable James Dyke and Detective Constable Darryl Whitehead.

The Ontario Provincial Police and the Ontario Provincial Police Association (O.P.P and the O.P.P.A) had tried to get out of producing the documents citing privilege. The Commissioner over-ruled their argument with the facts that the Police Services Act does not specify that disciplinary documents are of a privileged nature and that the Public Inquiries Act is not a civil or criminal procedure because there are no judgments being made from the evidence submitted.

The Commissioner will determine, by viewing the documents with O.P.P and O.P.P.A counsel, whether or not they should be submitted into evidence. They attempted to argue that not even the Commissioner should see the disciplinary documents.