{"id":946976,"date":"2026-10-26T13:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946976\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T13:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T13:54:09","slug":"quebec-orders-inquiries-into-montreal-police-officer-alleged-to-have-urinated-on-unhoused-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/946976\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec orders inquiries into Montreal police officer alleged to have urinated on unhoused person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quebec\u2019s ministry of domestic security has launched two separate inquiries into the conduct of a Montreal police officer <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/montreal-police-officers-suspended-alleged-misconduct-incidents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who was suspended from duty <\/a>after he allegedly urinated on an unhoused person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a communiqu\u00e9 published Sunday afternoon, domestic security minister Guy Lapointe said the investigations were ordered after Montreal\u2019s police chief, in accordance with provincial regulations, informed the ministry \u201cof a criminal allegation against a police officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn order to maintain the public\u2019s trust, the minister has requested that both the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bei.gouv.qc.ca\/\">Independent Investigations Office<\/a> and the <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deontologie-policiere.gouv.qc.ca\/\">Police Ethics Commissioner <\/a>conduct an investigation into the allegation and the conduct of the officer or officers involved,\u201d the communiqu\u00e9 stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quebec\u2019s ministry of domestic security has launched two separate inquiries into the conduct of a Montreal police officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":946977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-946976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/946977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}