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Human Rights & Equality

Policing platforms

Here's what the 2020 BC election parties are promising.

BC NDP
Modernize the Police Act based on the recommendations of the Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act, prioritizing tackling systemic racism, creating a dedicated hate crime unit within local forces, and reviewing training and procedures for "wellness checks".

BC Liberals
  • Establish more Integrated Mobile Crisis Response Teams to respond to mental health calls.
  • Require police services to adopt anti-racism & anti-discriminatory conduct policies.
  • Establish standards to eliminate arbitrary racial-profiling.
  • Increase use of non-armed police patrols.

BC Greens
  • Restart the Police Act review.
  • Review procedures for wellness checks in consultation with BIPOC and health professionals, with a goal of expanding use of integrated mental health crisis teams.

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Restart the police act review [...] This would include a review of: all provincial police force contracts, a comprehensive analysis of funding, the depth of policing activity in BC and the roles and responsibilities of law enforcement.

Review procedures for wellness checks in consultation with Indigenous and BIPOC organizations, with a goal of expanding the use of integrated mental health crisis teams in BC for mental health wellness checks.

Invite the BC Human Rights Commissioner to do a study on the impact of police violence and racial discrimination on Indigenous peoples in BC.

— From _The BC Greens' Plan for a More Equitable and Sustainable BC_.

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