21. The Commission shall make an inquiry respecting the Police Force or any municipal police force at the request of the Government and as to the conduct of any member of the Police Force, municipal policeman or special constable, whenever it is requested to do so by the Minister of Public Security; it must also make an inquiry whenever a municipality, approved by an absolute majority of the members of its council, requests the Commission to do so respecting its police force or the conduct of the members of such force or of a special constable appointed by the mayor.
The Commission may also make an inquiry respecting the Police Force or any municipal police force and as to the conduct of any member of the Police Force, municipal policeman or special constable on its own motion, or whenever a citizen requests it to do so in writing and gives it sufficient reasons to support its request.
Furthermore, the Commission must, if so required by the Minister of Public Security, make an inquiry into the conduct of any other person acting as a peace officer in Québec, if he belongs to a class of peace officers designated by regulation of the Government. The Commission may, in that case, also act on its own motion or at the substantiated request of a citizen.
1968, c. 17, s. 20; 1971, c. 16, s. 5; 1979, c. 67, s. 10; 1986, c. 86, s. 41; 1988, c. 46, s. 24.