An expert panel’s latest report detailing recommendations for the troubled Thunder Bay Police Service’s oversight board calls for major and measurable changes to prevent further erosion of police morale and trust in the force.
The report, billed a “roadmap for real change,” was released Thursday, after decades of building pressure on and scrutiny of the TBPS and the Thunder Bay Police Services Board, dozens of reports, investigations and coroner’s inquests, and hundreds of recommendations.
The independent expert panel was created in March 2022 amidst reports of low officer morale, human rights violations, and investigations into criminal misconduct by officers and leaders in the force.
Shortly after the panel was formed, a leaked confidential
