Police and Public Trust, a project of the CBC News Atlantic investigative unit, scrutinizes the largely off-limits police complaint and discipline systems across the region. Journalists are using access to information laws and, in some cases, court challenges to obtain discipline records and data.

Darrell Tidd kept hearing about break-ins in his community.

It was the summer of 2023, just a few months after the municipality of Eastern Charlotte was created in southwestern New Brunswick. 

This swath…