Almost nine months after Cadet Officer Franz Paul was charged with shooting a teenaged boy in the mouth, no departmental charges have apparently been filed against the dozen or so ranks who were with him at the time.
While disappointed at this, his mother says that she is more concerned that her son needs help as the incident has left him traumatized and withdrawn.
Following the April 30, 2014 shooting of then 15-year-old Alex Griffith, the police had said that the investigations were focused on criminal implications as well as departmental charges. Two van loads of policemen had accompanied Paul to the East La Penitence Squatting where Griffith lived to investigate a robbery committed on his sister. Paul at the time was
