Military Police Will No Longer Have the Authority to Investigate and Prosecute Sexual Offenses

Military Police Will No Longer Have the Authority to Investigate and Prosecute Sexual Offenses

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Defence Minister Bill Blair introduced changes to the National Defence Act today that would remove jurisdiction to handle certain Criminal Code offences from military court. Military police will no longer have the authority to investigate those cases, and the court martial won't be able to try the cases so long as they happened in Canada. But Canadian police do not have jurisdiction to investigate crimes that happen outside the country, including on deployments.

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