Ex\u002DVPD Chief Jim Chu says other B.C. police chiefs have been discouraged from firing the small minority of police who shouldn\u0027t be cops.
to have it thrown out, further delaying the saga. A disciplinary process was eventually held in February 2022, and retired Justice Wally Oppal delivered a decision in May. He found that while the letters contained inaccuracies, the former chief did not commit discreditable conduct.
At the hearing, Stamatakis accused Chu of bringing the administration of police discipline into disrepute, Oppal noted, and the VPD’s lawyer “dismissed the Stamatakis comments as ‘mostly bluster.’ ”Article contentThere have been at least a handful of other cases over the years in which B.C. officers broke the rules — or the law — and lied about it, but kept their jobs.
One of them was the Charters case. The others included a transit cop unnecessarily using a Taser on a civilian, a New Westminster officer entering a home without a warrant and arresting a person without sufficient cause, and an Abbotsford constable who was found criminally guilty of assaulting someone during an arrest.
Darryl Plecas, a professor emeritus of criminology at the University of the Fraser Valley. Photo: Mark YuenBut a situation where an officer commits an offence that could send a regular person to jail, and then lies to other investigators about it, and they stay on the job, he said, “that’s a major hit on the credibility of the profession of policing in general.”
In the case of Gomes, the adjudicator disagreed with Woodall’s analysis, deciding the constable was “no longer able to fill the role of a police officer.”Article contentIn a recent interview, Stamatakis, who now leads both the Canadian Association of Police and International Council of Police Representative Associations, called Chu’s recent statements “ridiculous” and “self-serving.”
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