Office of Police Complaint Commissioner adjudicator Carol Baird Ellan handed down her decision Wednesday morning. "Someone came up from behind her and pulled her hands out of her pockets and said something like, 'don't put your hands in your pockets,'" Baird Ellan wrote in August. Baird Ellan, a retired provincial court judge, found that an email about the incident de Haas sent to VPD inspectors compounded his problems. De Haas' counsel pointed to the former inspector's unblemished 40-year service record and argued that the physical incident was brief, disciplinary and not sexual. Baird Ellan wrote in her decision that de Haas's "continued failure to acknowledge or at least recognize the discreditable nature of his misconduct raises concerns about his ability to accept responsibility."

Source: CBC News September 19, 2018 22:52 UTC