Police and Public Trust, a CBC News Atlantic investigative unit project, scrutinizes the largely off-limits police complaint and discipline systems across the region. Journalists are using access-to-information laws, and in some cases court challenges, to obtain discipline records and data.
If there was ever a time to speak publicly about what happened in the lead-up to Joe Boland’s exit as chief of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, the former top cop says it was Friday morning, in front of a group of leaders in national police governance and oversight.
And he didn’t hold back.
“It was a concentrated effort by several to push me out the
