Over the last 12 years, 55 Nova Scotia municipal police officers were repeatedly disciplined for misconduct following investigations in their own departments, CBC News has learned. The numbers come from a CBC News analysis of more than a decade of data provided by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner (OPCC), an arms-length provincial agency tasked with accepting, tracking and investigating complaints from the public about police officers. The OPCC provided data from 941 files, which each represent a complaint against one or more officers. Some complaints contain multiple allegations against multiple officers. The data has never been examined in such detail before, even by the OPCC. Seeking a better understanding of misconduct and discipline, CBC wanted to go beyond the annual statistics available from the OPCC and study the files — complaint by complaint.