Public self-confidence in authorities in jeopardy if previous policeman permitted to have task back, CPS legal representative suggests

It’s a really poor concept to permit founded guilty crooks to function as Calgary Police police officers, an attorney for the solution suggested Wednesday.

Former Calgary constable Alex Dunn was prior to the Law Enforcement Review Board (LERB) on Wednesday, dealing with to obtain his task back 14 months after he was discharged for discreditable conduct. He had actually been founded guilty for attacking a handcuffed Black female by tossing her on the ground face initially.

“If you want the public to lose respect for the police, have convicted, sentenced criminals serve as police officers,” Michael Mysak stated to the LERB panel.

Dunn was condemned of attack triggering physical injury and eventually punished to 1 month behind bars and 6 months probation for the fierce attack on Dalia Kafi in December 2017.

‘Grave’ misbehavior

A corrective hearing adhered to Dunn’s criminal instance. In November 2023, administering policeman Paul Manuel discovered that the only proper assent for Dunn’s discreditable conduct was termination.

“The grave nature of his disciplinary misconduct is such that the employment relationship in this case has been irreversibly compromised,” created Manuel in his 99-page choice.

But Dunn desires his task back.

His legal representative, Alain Hepner, and Mysak showed up prior to the Law Enforcement Review Board on Wednesday for the previous policeman’s charm of his corrective choice.

A rough video clip of the attack was launched throughout Dunn’s test. Once uploaded online, it went viral. It’s been watched greater than 13 million times.

“I know of no other matter in the history of the CPS where the public interest has been more engaged,” Manuel created.

“The reputation of the police service, and policing in general, suffered drastically and has been ongoing since the assault itself in December of 2017.”

Manuel created that Dunn’s activities were “of such a nature they clearly demonstrate that he is not suitable to hold the office of police officer and to perform the related duties and responsibilities,” created the administering policeman.

While Hepner acknowledged “the optics of this particular event are bad,” he took place to say it must not have actually influenced Manual’s termination choice.

“It’s as if the video was so bad that the hearing officer was going to dismissal right away and stickhandling around the facts to get there.”

‘Incongruous with being a law enforcement agent’

But Mysak informed the panel that Dunn’s charm was “without merit” and suggested Manuel made no reviewable mistakes in his choice.

“When you are convicted of a crime and sentenced to jail, it is incongruous with being a police officer,” stated Mysak.

Hepner stated there “were other options short of dismissal” and suggested Manuel erred in locating that Dunn had a pattern of making use of too much pressure.

But Mysak mentioned Manuel thought about the reality that Dunn had actually formerly been disciplined for misbehavior in 2015 and once again in 2016.

‘Still attempting to refute his responsibility’

Dunn additionally indicated he would certainly performed lots of “dynamic takedowns” comparable to the one in 2017 in his 7 years as a CPS policeman, which the administering policeman stated must be “the exception and not commonplace.”

“If someone does it dozens of times, he must have some preference for it,” stated Mysak.

The CPS legal representative additionally highlighted that Dunn has actually never ever revealed any type of sorrow or responsibility.

“Dunn is still trying to deny his liability, his responsibility,” statedMysak “He’s still saying he did nothing wrong in judo flipping Ms. Kafi.”

In his choice, Manuel kept in mind Dunn remains to preserve his activities were called for and constant with his training.

The panel will certainly release its choice on Dunn’s charm in the following 60 days.