As Ontario’s police watchdog prepares to begin collecting race-based data as part of a larger series of reforms, the agency’s director says there aren’t plans yet to proactively track data pertaining to cases involving mental health.
Joseph Martino, a lawyer who previously served as the deputy director of the province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) before being promoted to director at the beginning of 2020, made the comments recently during a wide-ranging, one-on-one interview with Global News anchor Farah Nasser.