A public hearing ordered by the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner begins today in Victoria, examining the actions of two city police officers.
Retired provincial court judge Allan Filmer will consider if constables Ryan O'Neill and Brian Asmussen abused their authority and neglected their duties when a drunken teenaged girl was tied up and left for several hours in a Victoria police cell.
Two weeks have been set aside for the hearing, which was ordered last year after a Victoria Police Department investigation and separate review found the allegations against the two officers were unsubstantiated.
Fifteen-year-old Willow Kinloch was arrested in 2005 for being drunk in public.
Video from her cell shows the 45-kilogram teen being wrestled to the floor by two officers, tied up and then tethered for four hours to the door of the padded cell.
Kinloch was awarded $60,000 after a civil trial, although Victoria police and the City of Victoria appealed, eventually leading to an out-of-court settlement.
