RCMP Act - Part VII Subsection 45.45(14)
COMMISSION INTERIM REPORT

Following a Public Hearing Into the Complaints regarding the events that took place in connection with demonstrations during the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference in Vancouver, B.C. in November 1997 at the UBC Campus and at the UBC and Richmond detachments of the RCMP

COMMISSIONER Ted Hughes, Q.C.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COUNSEL APPEARING AT THE HEARING

1. INTRODUCTION

2. COMMISSION FOR PUBLIC COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE RCMP

3. THE COMPLAINTS

4. THE APEC Conference

5. PLANNING FOR APEC

6. THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN UBC AND CANADA

7. PRELIMINARY ISSUES

8. WAS THERE A "CRACKDOWN" AT UBC?

9. POLITICAL INTERVENTION

10. POLICE INDEPENDENCE

11. EARLY TAKEOVER OF THE MUSEUM

12. POLICE PERFORMANCECE

13. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 1: SECURITY PERIMETER, DEMONSTRATION AREA AND NOISE FREE ZONE

14. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 2: SINGH PHOTO AT ACCO OFFICE

15. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 3: UNDERTAKINGS

16. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 4: REMOVAL OF PRESS PASS

17. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 5: SINGH ARREST, CHARGE AND RELEASE

18. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 6: MALMO-LEVINE ARREST

19. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 7: DOG BITE

20. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 8: REMOVAL OF TIBETAN FLAG

21. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 9: REMOVAL OF GREEN COLLEGE SIGNS AND JONES ARREST

22. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 10: MUTTRAY AND DOUCETTE ARRESTS

23. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 11: CONFRONTATION AT THE NOON RALLY

24. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 12: OPPENHEIM ARREST

25. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 13: GROEBNER ARREST

26. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 14: REMOVAL OF MEGAPHONE

27. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 15: POLICE IDENTIFICATION

28. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 16: PROTESTERS MOVED FROM GATE 6

29. COMPLAINT CATEGORY 17: TREATMENT OF PRISONERS AT RICHMOND CELLS

30. CLOSING OBSERVATIONS

31. RECOMMENDATIONS

LIST OF APPENDICES