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Tuesday, July 06, 2004

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Issue date: Tuesday, July 6, 2004
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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 6, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tuesday july 6, 2004 service seeks closed suspensions hearing by Carol Sanders the Winnipeg free press will fight any attempt to exclude it from the arbitration hearing involving City police offi cers placed on leave following an internal investigation into the 2003 Kevin Tokarchuk killing. The Winnipeg police service and the Union representing eight officers who were suspended with pay Are joining forces to keep today a arbitration hear ing behind closed doors. We believe Winni Eggers have the right to know what transpires from this hearing free press editor Nicholas Hirst said yesterday. Police chief Jack Swatski placed the officers on paid leave when he launched an internal police investigation into the allegation that an informant had passed information to police that Tokarchuk was the target of a plot but that police took no action to warn him or his family. In june six of the officers two have since retired in an unprecedented move challenged Swatski a decision and filed a grievance against the police ser vice. They Are asking for an apology from Swatski and compensation for lost overtime and shift Premium pay while off work. With All due respect to the police Union and the service this is a very Public Issue involving not just a murder that might have been prevented but also the con duct of the police chief and the Force and the Public Swatski purse Hirst said. It is our duty to fight exclusion from such City police say the hearing could divulge the identity of an informant and the Winnipeg police association says intimate details about the officers ? who have been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing ? could come out at the hearing. There will be evidence that relates to intimate personal matters ? about the damage caused by the treatment that has been afforded to them by the police service said police association lawyer Keith Labossiere. He said earlier that officers lost Between $10,000 and $20,000 in overtime and shift premiums while they were on their forced six month leave. In addition to lost opportunities for promotion the ordeal has taken an emotional toll on them and their families the lawyer said yesterday. Continued please see police a2 ;