The Office of the Independent Review Director is asking Canada's top court to decide whether the agency has the power to take a second look at its own decision to refer a complaint to a disciplinary hearing.

The 206-page report by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director calls the findings deeply troubling.

In a letter by the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, it said two allegations of unlawful exercising of authority and discreditable conduct have been “substantiated” as “serious.”