Province Wide Inspection: Public Updates

This page provides the latest public information related to the Province-Wide Inspection on Police Integrity and Anti-Corruption Practices, including inspection notices, updates, and other relevant materials. 

 

Inspection Updates

June 29, 2026: Inspection Notice Issued

The inspection team has issued formal notices to police services and police service boards across Ontario. The notices outline the information and documents being requested, establish key timelines, and mark the beginning of the inspection's evidence-gathering phase.

 

Providing Information for the Inspection

Members of the public can provide information for the independent inspection led by the Honourable William Hourigan. 

Relevant information received, as it relates to the mandate of the inspection, will be reviewed by the inspection team. It may be considered in developing the Findings Report(s) submitted to the Inspector General of Policing. These findings may inform the Inspector General’s consideration of whether any legally binding directions to police services, police service boards or chiefs of police are necessary.

 

How Information Provided to the Inspection Will Be Used

Information provided for the independent inspection will be handled in accordance with all applicable laws, including the Community Safety and Policing Act. Information received as part of the inspection will be kept confidential unless disclosure of the information is permitted or required by law.

The Inspector General does not have the authority to determine whether an individual police officer or special constable has engaged in misconduct. If you have a concern about the conduct of a specific officer or official, you should contact the appropriate oversight body:

 

• Law Enforcement Complaints Agency: for concerns about the conduct of all municipal, regional, and OPP police officers; special constables employed by the Niagara Parks Commission; peace officers in the Legislative Protective Service; and First Nations police officers if the police service opts into the CSPA.

   

• Special Investigations Unit: for incidents involving an official that may have resulted in death, serious injury, the discharge of a firearm at a person or an alleged sexual assault.

   

• Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP: for concerns about RCMP officers.

   

• Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada: for concerns about military officers.

   

The Community Safety and Policing Act may require the Inspector General to disclose information received by the inspection team to another organization in some circumstances. This includes:

 

• Notifying the Special Investigations Units of incidents involving the conduct of a officials that may have resulted in serious injury or death, the discharge of a firearm at a person or an allegation of sexual assault.

   

• Notifying the Law Enforcement Complaints Agency of potential misconduct committed by officials.

   

• Notifying the chief of police of an unrelated police service of a potential criminal offence committed by a member of a police service, police service board, OPP detachment board or First Nation OPP board, or by someone working for a special constable employer.

   

• Notifying a chief of police or a special constable employer and appointing authority (police service board or OPP commissioner), of information suggesting that a member of a police service, or a special constable employed by a special constable employer, may be incapable of perform their duties. 

   

Submit Information

Information relevant to the inspection can be submitted by email: Anticorruption.Inspection@ontario.ca