Investigation request highlights tensions between Edmonton police, its oversight body and city council – Edmonton [Video]

One day after learning her posting to the Edmonton Police Commission is under scrutiny, Edmonton human rights expert Renée Vaugeois says the move further escalates the ongoing tensions between the City of Edmonton, Edmonton Police Service, and the civilian body that oversees it.

“At a time when our community is facing so many urgent challenges, I find it difficult to reconcile the use of provincial public resources to investigate my role on the commission,” Vaugeois said in a statement to Global News on Friday.

Vaugeois — who has been the executive director of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights for 20 years — was one of four citizens appointed to the commission on a two-year term at the end of December.

At the commission’s first meeting of the year on Thursday, members became aware the Edmonton Police Service (EPS) had taken issue with the appointments of both Vaugeois and Dan Jones, a criminologist and former …