Longueuil Mayor Catherine Fournier has asked Quebec’s public security minister to open an investigation into the city’s police service after she said internal correspondence revealed “several alleged breaches” of the force’s obligations in the aftermath of the killing of 15-year-old Nooran Rezayi.

In a statement Thursday, Fournier said she is invoking section 279 of Quebec’s Police Act, a mechanism that allows the minister to order an external probe into a police service.

Her request, she said, follows two letters sent in November by senior officials at Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI), the watchdog investigating Rezayi’s death. According to the mayor, the letters outline troubling allegations over how the Longueuil Agglomeration Police Service (SPAL) handled the case.

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