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The Bureau des Enquêtes Indépendantes (BEI; English: Bureau of Independent Investigations) is a Canadian civilian oversight agency which investigates policing incidents during which civilians are injured or killed in Quebec. Its findings are given to the Quebec's prosecution service to decide if charges should be pressed.

History
The Bureau des Enquêtes Indépendantes was formed in June 2016. Previously standard practice for police incidents involving civilian deaths and injuries was for another police department in the province to investigate. Because of concerns over pro-police bias in having police agencies investigate other police agencies, the BEI was formed.

In November 2018, access to information requests obtained letters that BEI Director Madeleine Giauque had sent to the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, Service de police de la Ville de Laval, the Sûreté du Québec, and the Kativik Regional Police Force raising concerns that their officers were left together and unsupervised when writing up their version of events for BEI investigations. Under Quebec law, officers submitting such reports to the BEI must write their reports separately and independently. Advocacy groups such as the Ligue des droits et libertés, the Réseau d'aide aux personnes seules et itinérantes de Montréal (RAPSIM), the Coalition contre la Répression et les Abus Policiers, and the CSN labour federation's central council for metropolitan Montreal, said that the obtained documents showed shortfalls in the BEI's ability to effectively do its work.

Accusations of bias
Critics of the BEI say that the watchdog needs further reform to restore public faith in policing, because police officers were more likely to be charged before the reforms. Since its creation in June 2016 to May 2019, the BEI investigated 126 cases, 71 of which involved civilian deaths, but zero police officers were charged. Under the previous system, 10 police officers, or about 2% of all cases, resulted in charges between 1999 and 2016. , about half of the BEI's investigators are former police officers, which critics say undermine the bureau's perceived independence.