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The Commission undertakes to improve its own practicesThe Commission was one of the pioneers in Québec in thinking about, conceptualizing and then engaging in the awareness-raising work involved in having the existence of racial profiling recognized as a form of discrimination.

The outcome of the consultation on racial profiling and its consequences confirms that the Commission made the right decision when it launched this initiative. The Commission will continue its work and improve how it handles the systemic dimension of racial profiling complaints and will review its judicial strategy. Moreover, the Commission has pledged to follow-up with the governement and all other institutional stakeholders to ensure that is recommendations are implemented.

More specfically, the Commission undertakes to:

  • ensure that the courses on racial profiling, in particular those given to its own personnel assigned to complaint handling, are accompanied by follow-up procedures intended to measure their effectiveness, and where necessary, to make the appropriate corrections;
  • design and implement an intervention model that, in the case of complaints with a systemic dimension, provide for the formation of a team that brings together complementary expertise and whose members work in collaboration during every stage of the complaint processing;
  • pay careful attention, when handling complaints of racial profiling, to elements of contextual evidence, such as statistical data revealing recurring suspicious patterns in police interventions or organizational policies with potentially discriminatory effects;
  • be more inclined, when handling complaints of racial profiling, to propose or demand, as the case may be, corrective measures of a structural nature;
  • make accessible, in the public interest, the settlements obtained by mediation, while protecting the anonymity of the parties;
  • guarantee better follow-up with complainants in order to keep them better informed of the progress of the handling of their complaint;
  • reduce the time involved in handling complaints of racial profiling at every stage to the extent possible;
  • prioritize the option of referring cases of racial profiling to the Human Rights Tribunal on their merits in its decision-making process, even in the absence of collaboration from the police officers involved during the investigation stage;
  • pursue its efforts to have municipalities, including the City of Montréal and the SPVM instruct their police officers to collaborate in the Commission’s investigations of racial profiling, in particular by providing testimony when requested;
  • remain attentive to the community organizations that it encountered during the consultation, and to continue to work in collaboration with them;
  • carry out rigorous follow-up in the future in order to ensure that the recommendations that it has addressed to various institutions in this report are in fact implemented.

Read more:
  News release
  Section of the Report on the Commission's commitments