The government is expected to announce a public inquiry Wednesday to look into allegations of SQ officers sexually assaulting indigenous women in Val d'Or.
There has been pressure on the government to call an inquiry. It comes following the outcry after the Montreal police investigation ended without any charges against the officers allegedly involved.
The Quebec government initially rejected calls for a public inquiry, saying Ottawa's national missing and murdered Indigenous women inquiry would cover Val d'Or.
Indigenous leaders, however, argued Quebec needed its own inquiry specific to the issues in Val d'Or.
The announcement is expected to be made at 3 p.m.
The investigations began last year following a Radio-Canada report where many aboriginal women in Val d'Or said they had been abused, sexually abused, and taken on 'starlight tours' by police officers.
Montreal police investigated 37 accusations involving police officers in Val d'Or, Schefferville, and other rural cities.
Of those cases where the investigations are complete, the Crown has only charged two officers: Alain Juneau and Jean-Luc Volant, both of whom were based in Schefferville.
Juneau has been charged with sexual assault and Volant with uttering threats.
In most of the other cases, the Crown said while it believed crimes had occurred, it did not think it had the evidence to find the accused guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
After analyzing the case files, the Crown determined that ten of the accusations did not involve a criminal act.
The other accusations included 14 allegations of sexual assault, 15 of assault, and nine of kidnapping and/or abandoning people in far-off locations, also known as starlight tours.
Almost all those cases fell apart under the requirements of building a criminal case.
