The Office of Independent Investigations (OII) is not yet actively investigating cases. When it becomes operational, OII will conduct fair, thorough, transparent, and competent investigations of police use of deadly force.

Governor Jay Inslee requested the creation of OII based on recommendations from the Governor’s Task Force on Independent Investigations of Police Use of Force, which he convened in 2020 following the deaths of George Floyd in Minnesota and Manuel Ellis in Washington State.