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Jason Walker, Associate Professor, Graduate Studies, Leadership and People Management, University Canada West

The 'blue wall' of silence allows bullying, sexual abuse and violence to infect police forces

Officers gather for a funeral service for a constable who'd been in a coma for 30 years in Victoria in April 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

After an alleged targeted campaign of bullying and sexual harassment by fellow members of the Vancouver Police Department, Const. Nicole Chan died by suicide in January 2019.

A coroner’s inquest is now underway, examining the circumstances leading to her senseless, preventable death — despite the fact that key witnesses, including the officers at the centre of the British Columbia Police Act investigation, aren’t on the witness list.

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