Canada: Military apologizes for errors in probe into soldier's suicide

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'The head of Canada’s military police is apologizing for his force’s incompetence after an inquiry found investigations into the suicide of an Afghanistan veteran were conducted by inexperienced personnel who made unacceptable errors.

Colonel Rob Delaney, the Canadian Forces Provost Marshal, said Tuesday that a highly critical report by the Canadian Military Police Complaints Commission into investigations of the 2008 death of Corporal Stuart Langridge underlines the fact that mistakes were made and he will take steps to correct them.

But Glenn Stannard, the chair of the complaints commission, said the military’s written response to his 1,008-page report was dismissive and most of the 46 recommendations were rejected or ignored.

On the heels of a spate of soldiers’ suicides, the commission’s findings released Tuesday raise questions about how well those deaths are being investigated by the people assigned to determine whether the military could have done anything to prevent them.'

Also see: Secret military report into soldier’s 2008 suicide blames victim and parents