Another Edmonton police commissioner resigns after conflict-of-interest probe

Mrinali Anchan · CBC News

· Posted: May 16, 2025 6:43 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

The Edmonton Police Commission announced that 1 of its commissioners resigned Friday afternoon, following an independent, third-party conflict-of-interest reappraisal requested by the Edmonton Police Service.

After receiving the review's findings, the committee voted Thursday to person Renée Vaugeois instrumentality to the board, with rules successful spot to negociate immoderate conflicts of interest.

"It has go wide that my continued beingness whitethorn inadvertently origin distraction and hostility that could hinder the important enactment ahead," said Vaugeois, who is besides the enforcement manager of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, successful a nationalist quality release.

"I person made the hard determination to measurement distant successful the involvement of supporting the commission's quality to service our assemblage efficaciously and to guarantee that absorption remains wherever it belongs: connected providing beardown oversight and enactment to the Edmonton Police Service."

In a abstracted quality merchandise issued Friday, the committee said it tin negociate existing real, perceived oregon imaginable conflicts done its existing argumentation and procedures, arsenic good arsenic implementing much rules.

On Jan. 16, the appointments of a caller committee seat and vice-chair were overshadowed, as the Alberta authorities committed to an enquiry into the appointments of 2 caller committee members — Vaugeois and Dan Jones, the NorQuest College justness studies chair.

The Edmonton Police Service had sought provincial involution successful metropolis council's appointments of Vaugeois and Jones to the commission, which oversees the service. An Edmonton Police Service lawyer said connected Jan 30. that concerns astir imaginable conflicts of involvement drove the request.

The committee said it volition not beryllium releasing further information, citing privacy. It considers the substance closed.

"The struggle of involvement reappraisal was conducted successful accordance with the board's guidelines, procedures, and policy, and the committee has fulfilled each its ineligible obligations and requirements passim this process," said committee seat Ben Henderson.

Vaugeois declined an interrogation request, saying she would apt contented a connection adjacent week connected the matter.

Jones resigned from the committee connected Jan. 16, aft his assignment to the committee was announced connected the aforesaid day. 

In December, Henderson replaced John McDougall as committee chair, after public contention implicit McDougall's program to service connected the oversight assemblage until the extremity of 2026 portion surviving successful Portugal.