Leaked letter says former Regina police commissioner filed complaint against RPS chief

Chris Edwards · CBC News

· Posted: May 06, 2025 7:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

A missive to ex-Regina Board of Police Commissioners subordinate Alicia Morrow, indicating she filed a ailment against Regina Police Chief Farooq Sheikh, was leaked connected societal media Monday.

The Regina Police Service (RPS) announced connected April 4 that Sheikh had been suspended with pay after a nationalist ailment against him. The Public Complaints Commission (PCC) is presently investigating the allegation. 

Details astir the quality of the ailment and who made it person not been officially released.

On Monday afternoon, societal media relationship Just Bins posted an representation of a missive from the PCC to Alicia Morrow, a section concern proprietor and activist.

The letter, dated March 26, acknowledged a ailment Morrow made against the RPS chief.

On Tuesday afternoon, Morrow's lawyer Sharon Fox confirmed that the leaked missive had been sent to Morrow, but said she could not remark connected what the missive related to until the PCC probe is complete.

CBC has asked the RPS and the PCC whether Morrow's ailment sparked the probe that led to Sheikh's suspension. The RPS did not reply the question. The PCC had not responded arsenic of work time.

Fox described the leak arsenic a "clear and calculated effort to intimidate, soundlessness and re-victimize" Morrow. She besides said the merchandise of the missive led to Morrow facing targeted harassment and a hazard to her idiosyncratic safety.

"This breach is not conscionable a usurpation of privacy—it is emblematic of the broader situation facing Indigenous women, who are disproportionately subjected to violence, retaliation, and organization silencing erstwhile they travel forward," Fox said.

Fox besides said her steadfast is investigating who was liable for the leak, and intends to instrumentality "appropriate ineligible action."

Morrow had been a subordinate of the Regina Board of Police Commissioners, the governing assemblage of the Regina Police Service, since August 2024. 

The committee is simply a seven-member assemblage comprised of the Regina mayor, 2 metropolis assembly members and 4 regular citizens, 1 of whom indispensable beryllium of Indigenous descent. Morrow was the Indigenous committee member.

On Tuesday, Mayor Bachynski confirmed that Morrow had near the board. Public gathering notes bespeak her past quality arsenic a listed committee subordinate was astatine the Feb. 27 committee meeting, wherever she was listed arsenic absent.