NDP MP Nathan Cullen (Skeena-Bulkley Valley) plans to introduce a private members bill in Parliament Monday to create civilian oversight of the RCMP.
The proposed Civilian Investigation Service would be empowered to investigate cases where people die or suffer serious injury while in RCMP custody.
"The system that exists right now for when someone dies or is seriously injured in police custody is one that's not transparent, isn't accountable to the public, and doesn't work for the public or the RCMP," Cullen told CTV News Sunday.
Linda Bush, whose son, Ian, died in RCMP custody in 2005, will join Cullen Monday to call for civilian oversight.
"I just really, really want to find a way to make a change so that it does stop happening. Every single time, it hurts," she said.
On Saturday, CTV's W-5 aired a report into three in-custody deaths in B.C., including the Bush case.
The investigation found significant discrepancies between forensic evidence and testimony given by Mounties during probes of the deaths.
In September, Supt. Bill McKinnon, president of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police, called on the province to create an independent unit to investigate police-involved deaths.
"No matter what we seem to do we can't seem to sway public perception in relation to investigations of police investigating themselves," he said at a joint news conference with RCMP at the national force's headquarters in Vancouver.
In August, the RCMP's federal watchdog, the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP, urged the creation of an outside body to handle police-involved cases.
