The Port Moody police issued a news release Thursday listing the number of people who they think were wrongfully given IRPs due to their calibration screw up. In damage control, they excluded the people who received IRPs from the period September 20, 2010 to December 31, 2010. In other words, their news release says that they only considered people from 2011. The IRP victims from 2010 will never be exonerated apparently.
Regular readers of our blog know that we’ve covered this story many times. After all, we’re the ones who cracked the secret code and revealed it. We’re the ones who got 1200 people a reconsideration of their Interlock and RDP. We’re the ones who figured out that the VPD were simply photocopying the calibration documents.
I guess we deserve a gold star. When we have time one day perhaps we’ll explain some of the mistakes we’ve made along the way.
Again, CTV did a fairly thorough job explaining the Port Moody issue in their news report. You can find the clip here.
We’ll have more to say about this in a few days. At this point we:
a) don’t trust the Government to tell us the truth or do the right thing; and
b) feel there needs to be an inquiry to determine why it took so long to get to this point on the Port Moody file.
Perhaps when the NDP defeat the BCLiberals in May 2013 they can establish the IRP Truth and Reconciliation Commission to try and figure out how we sank so low in our society so as to adopt a presumption of guilt and punish people — destroy their lives, without a trial.
For now our hearts go out to the IRP victims in Port Moody. We suspect that there are perhaps as many as 100 of them. We’ve made some more FOIs to see if we can help more IRP victims from around the province.
We appreciate all of the support that we’ve received along the way in trying to deal with these issues.