Ottawa police will submit the race of drivers they stop to the Ontario Human Rights Commission after reaching a settlement in a 2005 complaint.
Chad Aiken filed that complaint after he was pulled over in his mother's Mercedes while he was 18 years old, saying the only reason police stopped him was because he was black.
Police will start submitting that information after figuring out how to implement this settlement over the next six to nine months.
"The goal here is to demonstrate that we are a bias-free police service in our community," said Ottawa police chief Charles Bordeleau. "I am very confident in the professionalism of our members."
Aiken's lawyer Donald McLeod said the settlement doesn't go far enough.
"So they say they are there to conquer racial profiling, but they won't go further which is what our client wants, which is that they also do the stops on pedestrians," he said.
Ottawa police announced a new policy on racial profiling in August 2011, which came into effect about a month and a half earlier.
With a report from CTV Ottawa's Catherine Lathem
