A lawyer who resigned from Victoria’s police board over concerns about transparency says the city’s residents deserve an independent investigation of the circumstances that led to the collapse of a major drug prosecution.
Paul Schachter says he has filed a complaint against the Victoria Police Department over allegations of misconduct by officers who allegedly misled the court about the involvement of a disgraced colleague in the initial stages of a probe into a $30-million fentanyl trafficking ring.
Details of Project Juliet’s demise emerged last week in a B.C. Supreme Court decision which said officers “obscured” the fact former Const. Robb Ferris was part of the first iteration of
