A new report recommends Alberta ban city councillors and mayors from sitting on local police commissions, following months of tension between Edmonton city council and the Edmonton Police Commission.

The province quietly released the results of its inquiry Friday, an investigation Public Safety Minister Mike Ellis launched earlier this year into what he called the “increasingly dysfunctional relationship” between the three bodies.

The review, conducted by an Ontario Justice, includes 51 recommendations aimed at improving how police are governed in Alberta. Among them: amending the Police Act to prohibit municipal politicians from serving on police commissions.

Councillor-elect Anne Stevenson, who served on the Edmonton Police Commission last term, said she isn’t entirely opposed to the

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