B.C. police discipline ruling voided as overseeing officer retired [Video]

A disciplinary decision against a former Vancouver police sergeant, who was found to have improperly shared degrading messages about a colleague who was sexually assaulted, has been voided after authorities realized the senior officer who oversaw the investigation retired a week before it was issued.

The disciplinary decision must now be reissued, dragging out the victim’s pursuit of justice over how she was treated by colleagues in the wake of the 2019 attack.

She called the situation a “screw-up” by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, which she said had failed its oversight mission.

Former New Westminster police chief Dave Jansen had been appointed by the office as the discipline authority in the investigation of former sergeant Narinder Dosanjh.

Jansen found Dosanjh committed “discreditable conduct” by sharing “disrespectful” commentary written by someone else about the 2021 court testimony by the woman, whose attacker was fellow Vancouver police officer Jagraj …